[clue] [tech] Calculate total bandwidth usage for an interface using rrdtool

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thanks Jim
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On Jul 20, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Jim Ockers wrote:

Hi everyone,

I know it's been a while but I thought I would close the loop on this.  I was asking if anyone knew a good and easy bandwidth tracking utility that we could use to make sure our cell phone modems don't exceed the data plan allotment.

I figured out an easy way to do this with vnstat.  Vnstat provides command line utility, a daemon, and a back-end tracking database.  I had to wrap it with scripts protecting it from PPP interfaces that go up & down a lot.  One nice thing about vnstat is that it lets you specify the total maximum bandwidth an interface SHOULD have, that helps to avoid bad data causing massive apparent bandwidth spikes that didn't actually happen.

Just for the record,
Jim
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Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
Contact info: http://www.ockers.net/msi.html

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