[SOLVED]How to count my network traffic?

karbon · 2010-08-26 09:39:00

Hello guys, about two weeks later I'll be in university and I was informed that the network access there provided to students has a limitation of up to 3 Gigabytes per month on traffic(is it the word? My English is not that good). If exceeded, you'll have to pay more....

Now I wonder if there's a way that can count my network traffic in time so that I can know how much I've used.

I see that the command "ifconfig" will provide me with a real-time statics, but ifconfig's counter will be reset every reboot. So how can I count up my historical traffic? Can iptraf do that?

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by karbon (2011-01-01 08:33:04)

karol · 2010-08-26 10:17:07

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort … =&limit=50

[karol@black ~]$ vnstat -d

 eth0  /  daily

         day         rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
      07/28/10    458.86 MiB |   27.64 MiB |  486.50 MiB |   46.13 kbit/s
      07/29/10    238.06 MiB |   28.72 MiB |  266.77 MiB |   25.29 kbit/s
      07/30/10      2.19 GiB |  109.37 MiB |    2.29 GiB |  222.77 kbit/s
      07/31/10      3.36 GiB |  135.34 MiB |    3.50 GiB |  339.39 kbit/s
      08/01/10      3.15 GiB |  147.74 MiB |    3.29 GiB |  319.37 kbit/s
      08/02/10      7.02 GiB |  264.51 MiB |    7.28 GiB |  706.85 kbit/s
      08/03/10    786.35 MiB |   35.34 MiB |  821.69 MiB |   77.91 kbit/s
      08/04/10    140.49 MiB |   15.08 MiB |  155.57 MiB |   14.75 kbit/s
      08/05/10    653.74 MiB |   72.34 MiB |  726.09 MiB |   68.84 kbit/s
      08/06/10    260.99 MiB |   22.96 MiB |  283.95 MiB |   26.92 kbit/s
      08/07/10      3.90 GiB |  141.00 MiB |    4.04 GiB |  392.22 kbit/s
      08/08/10      5.32 GiB |  160.40 MiB |    5.48 GiB |  532.18 kbit/s
      08/09/10      2.16 GiB |  125.59 MiB |    2.28 GiB |  221.71 kbit/s
      08/10/10      1.63 GiB |   83.56 MiB |    1.71 GiB |  165.94 kbit/s
      08/11/10      5.94 GiB |    0.99 GiB |    6.93 GiB |  672.57 kbit/s
      08/12/10      1.46 GiB |   50.79 MiB |    1.51 GiB |  146.96 kbit/s
      08/13/10      4.88 GiB |  182.15 MiB |    5.06 GiB |  491.14 kbit/s
      08/14/10    363.90 MiB |   25.23 MiB |  389.13 MiB |   36.90 kbit/s
      08/15/10      1.29 GiB |   72.01 MiB |    1.36 GiB |  132.33 kbit/s
      08/16/10    509.91 MiB |   28.90 MiB |  538.81 MiB |   51.09 kbit/s
      08/17/10      1.99 GiB |   89.81 MiB |    2.08 GiB |  201.53 kbit/s
      08/18/10    565.18 MiB |   40.43 MiB |  605.61 MiB |   57.42 kbit/s
      08/19/10      1.38 GiB |   64.57 MiB |    1.45 GiB |  140.31 kbit/s
      08/20/10    657.43 MiB |   31.77 MiB |  689.19 MiB |   65.35 kbit/s
      08/21/10      1.38 GiB |   70.89 MiB |    1.45 GiB |  140.55 kbit/s
      08/22/10    712.00 MiB |   33.83 MiB |  745.83 MiB |   70.72 kbit/s
      08/23/10     96.79 MiB |   14.73 MiB |  111.52 MiB |   10.57 kbit/s
      08/24/10     94.99 MiB |    8.91 MiB |  103.90 MiB |    9.85 kbit/s
      08/25/10    343.72 MiB |   21.45 MiB |  365.17 MiB |   34.62 kbit/s
      08/26/10    692.09 MiB |   23.34 MiB |  715.44 MiB |  478.91 kbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
     estimated      4.79 GiB |     163 MiB |    4.95 GiB |

[karol@black ~]$ vnstat -m

 eth0  /  monthly

       month        rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
    ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
      Nov '09      9.35 GiB |  918.19 MiB |   10.25 GiB |   33.17 kbit/s
      Dec '09     21.29 GiB |    2.01 GiB |   23.30 GiB |   72.96 kbit/s
      Jan '10     13.12 GiB |    1.55 GiB |   14.67 GiB |   45.94 kbit/s
      Feb '10     66.99 GiB |    4.72 GiB |   71.71 GiB |  248.65 kbit/s
      Mar '10     31.77 GiB |    2.68 GiB |   34.45 GiB |  107.89 kbit/s
      Apr '10     28.77 GiB |    2.50 GiB |   31.26 GiB |  101.18 kbit/s
      May '10      2.94 GiB |  333.79 MiB |    3.27 GiB |   10.23 kbit/s
      Sep '10    575.99 MiB |   65.32 MiB |  641.31 MiB |    2.03 kbit/s
      May '10      6.38 GiB |  682.79 MiB |    7.05 GiB |   22.08 kbit/s
      Jun '10      6.10 GiB |  347.45 MiB |    6.44 GiB |   20.83 kbit/s
      Jul '10     41.02 GiB |    1.73 GiB |   42.75 GiB |  133.89 kbit/s
      Aug '10     47.25 GiB |    2.77 GiB |   50.02 GiB |  193.16 kbit/s
    ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
    estimated     58.26 GiB |    3.42 GiB |   61.67 GiB |

It will not stop you from downloading, vnstat only provides a means of monitoring how much you send and download.

karbon · 2010-08-26 11:13:11

Thanks karol, I've installed it and now manning it....Looks like exactly what I want:-)

karol · 2010-08-26 11:17:51

I have it as a daemon in rc.conf:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus hal @acpid @gpm @network @crond @alsa !netfs @atd !preload @vnstat)

Vermillion · 2010-08-26 12:25:40

Sorry for the not topic related question but what are the "@" and "!" prior the daemons for?
I am just wondering because i never seen this before...

karol · 2010-08-26 12:28:12

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#DAEMONS_Section
If a script is prefixed with an "at" symbol (@), it shall be executed in the background. It's useful for speeding up boot.

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#1 2010-08-26 09:39:00

[SOLVED]How to count my network traffic?

#2 2010-08-26 10:17:07

Re: [SOLVED]How to count my network traffic?

#3 2010-08-26 11:13:11

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#4 2010-08-26 11:17:51

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#5 2010-08-26 12:25:40

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#6 2010-08-26 12:28:12

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