DIY usage meter?

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:09:27PM -0400, R. Luoma wrote:
> Can one setup an linux-based router with multiple
> network ports so that it will record
> the flow of bytes through whatever interface
> one has to the internet?

Yes.

For example, ifconfig says:

...
          RX packets:85756479 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:92269890 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:4153158012 (3.8 GiB)  TX bytes:3166798470 (2.9 GiB)
...

Or you can hook up nice graphing systems like cacti, or you can
read info remotely via SNMP...

What is it that you want to do?

-dsr-



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