Of course if you keep the daily sys report email (generated out
of /etc/periodic) out could subtract the the throughput on
whichever ethernet card is connected to the modem on the first
day of the period (or the last day you rebooted the machine) from
that of the last day of the period. This should at least give
you an approximation of the traffic over that network link which
can be taken to be similar to the traffic of the ADSL link
barring the obvious exceptions (esp connections refuse by the
modem from outside and or connections to the modem from the
inside)

--kit

Dan Langille wrote:
>
> Today I received my bill for the period ending 15 Jun 1999. It was for
> $865.98. This is rather strange because for the many weeks prior to
> this bill coming out, I kept getting "no current usage available for
> junkmale" (my user id). Then one day it gave it a total of about $700
> and something. I'd check it now but it appears that the billing system is
> offline.
>
> I intend to ring Telecom about this bill tomorrow and talk about it.
> There's very little chance of me paying that amount given the fact that I
> was unable to keep track of my usage during that month. Then all of a
> sudden it tells me I've done over 2G (this volume is based on memory
> and I'll verify that as soon as the billing page is up).
> --
> Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited
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