I have been using a tool called vnstat, and there is a php front end available which gives nice graphs. both easy to set up and can be forgotten about untill you need to know On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz>wrote:

Hi there

Since the question came up at yesterday's WLUG meeting, of how to monitor internet traffic, especially over a whole month to track data usage on limited plans (eg 3G). I just had another look on the internet and came across "Netmonitor screenlet" for Ubuntu/Gnome, which seems to do the trick:

http://www.botskool.com/geeks/network-tools-monitor-internet-data-usage-ubun...

HTH

Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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