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  From: Andreja Zivkovic <zivkotech@ozemail.com.au>
  To  : Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:33:10 +0930

Re: ppp dialers

Hi, I had a look at mrtg, and it looks great. I got the rpms from
contrib.redhat.com. I havn't got it working yet, but I havn't had much time
to stuff around with the settings.

Anyway, while the graps are useful, what i ment in my first e-mail was some
way to have a way of knowing the total megabytes downloaded from a certain
date. For example, the total amount downloaded from the 1st of April to the
1st of May (i'm billed for the total amount of megabytes I download in 1
month). Sorry if I didn't make it clear in the first e-mail, and I hope this
makes more sence. ifconfig says the total number of packets sent and
received, btu I don't know how to get the amount of bytes, k bytes, etc.

Thanks again for telling me about mrtg,

Andy

> Andreja Zivkovic wrote:
>
>  > I am looking for a program that will keep up a ppp link 24 hours a day
and
>  > keep track of bytes received/transmitted.
>
> pppd with the "persistent" keyword and the "chat" program work well.
>
>  > If possible, I would like the program to be able to have the data
>  > transferred reset at the end of the month (manually, or automatically)
and
>  > possibly even write the information about data transferred into a file,
so I
>  > can put it on a web page. I'm pretty sure this is just wishful thinking
>  > though ;)
>
> Look at http://slash.dotat.org/mrtg
>
> mrtg should be in an RPM somewhere.
>
>     - mark


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