Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] monitoring total bytes transferred per day?

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From: Mark Grigsby <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:21:52 -0700
Brent..  you may be better served by tools like MRTG and reading the byte 
counters in your router and generating graphs from it.  Another tool if you 
can install PHP and Perl on a web server might be CACTI...

You can find information at the following links...

Cacti...   http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/

MRTG...   http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/



On Thursday 09 September 2004 09:01 am, Brent Fraser wrote:
> I haven't used Ethereal before, but it looks like it has lots of features.
>
> Can it monitor (and log) the total number of bytes transferred per day? 
> I'd like to keep track of that number since our ISP contract has a gb/month
> limit.  At this point I don't want to canture or examine any packets, just
> keep an eye on the total amount of traffic.
>
> Or perhaps there is a better (simpler) tool somewhere?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Brent Fraser
>
> GeoAnalytic Inc.
> Tel:(403) 213-2700
> bfraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.geoanalytic.com
>
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