Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] monitoring total bytes transferred per day?

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From: Ted Kaczmarek <tedkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 20:55:59 -0400
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 12:01, Brent Fraser wrote:
> I haven't used Ethereal before, but it looks like it has lots of features.
> 
> Can it monitor (and log) the total number of bytes transferred per day?  I'd
> like to keep track of that number since our ISP contract has a gb/month
> limit.  At this point I don't want to canture or examine any packets, just
> keep an eye on the total amount of traffic.
> 
> Or perhaps there is a better (simpler) tool somewhere?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Brent Fraser
> 
Ntop is probably what you want, iptraf may also suffice.

Ted