<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">thanks Jim<div>99guspuppet<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 20, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Jim Ockers wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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Hi everyone,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Just for the record,<br>
Jim<br>
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Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>)<br>
Contact info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ockers.net/msi.html">http://www.ockers.net/msi.html</a><br>
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