[leglug-users] Bandwidth Monitoring

[Denys (VISP)]

Hi



I am working in one of the stupid ISP, so please choose correct words. If you 
are so smart, make ur own ISP with pure unlimited broadband. Bandwidth in 
Lebanon is almost expensive in world (more expensive in poor countries of 
Africa, kyrgyzstan/kazakhstan, Afghanistan). There is just no way to make 
unlimited plans, without proper "ground" infrastructure and backbone 
connectivity, ISP's tried that, and they fail, results didn't fit in business 
plan.

I suggest to use brain, and write small script. It depends on your 
connection, if ppp - you can just use ifconfig and simple perl script, and 
collect statistics anywhere you like. If eth - here is more difficult, 
sometimes you dont need to count broadcasts, maybe good result you will get 
from iptables with proper filtering rules.

To write ~10 line script it will take 10 minutes, most of the developers dont 
bother them-self to write so simple tools for public. Maybe good idea will be 
to make some Lebanese traffic meter, localized to Lebanese ISP's.

Also you can use ipcad, and poll it by rsh, to collect detailed stat's with 
ports/IP's/time, if ISP will count for you more than you download, you can 
prove that u didnt.

But if u r still lazy
http://humdi.net/vnstat/


On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:40:48  0200, Alaa Salman wrote
> Hey guys,
> 
> For people using the (so-called)broadband service in Lebanon, after 
> the traffic limitation, what kind of monitoring tools are you using?
> 
> I was using a tool called bandwithd but i am not really sure if it 
> is working correctly. It seems to be displaying the wrong statistics.
> 
> Anyway, what i need is just to monitor my bandwith usage by month or 
> something similar. Any other statistics ofcourse are nice, but i can 
> live without them.
> 
> I found several network monitoring tools, but i am not sure if any 
> have what i need.(FOSS developers are notoriously bad at writing 
> documentation)
> 
> So until the stupid ISPs remove that limitation or implements one at 
> their side(i contacted them, they said that i should install one 
> myself and there are several tools for windows.....they failed to 
> consider that i am not on windows), what would you suggest?
> 
> Regards,
> Alaa Salman
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Denys Fedoryshchenko
Technical Manager
Virtual ISP S.A.L.