What you will need to do is go and have a look at www.mrtg.org
Have a look at this script... This does a telnet into the router and pulls
the relevent traffic counters out for mrtg.
This is the latest version I have here at work, so if it doesnt work, email
me at home (the address at bottom of script) and I will send you the latest
version. You will need the Net::Telnet module from CPAN.

cheers
Rob

--- snip ---

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# logon to alcatel adsl router and get connection stats for mrtg
#
# mrtg expects 4 lines returned:
# Line 1: current state of the first variable, normally 'incoming
bytes count'
# Line 2: current state of the second variable, normally 'outgoing
bytes count'
# Line 3: string (in any human readable format), telling the uptime of
the target.
# Line 4: string, telling the name of the target.

use strict;
use Net::Telnet ();

# set up some user variables
my $AlcatelHost = 'hostname'; #modify this one
my $AlcatelPasswd = 'password'; #modify this one
my $AlcatelUser = ''; #dont modify
# end of variables

my $IntName;
if ($ARGV[0]) {
        $IntName = $ARGV[0];
} else {
        UsageText();
}

my $conn = new Net::Telnet (Prompt => '/\=>$/i');
# uncomment these two lines for debug logfiles
#$conn->input_log('test1.txt');
#$conn->dump_log('test.txt');

# connect and logon
$conn->open($AlcatelHost);
$conn->waitfor('/User : $/i');
$conn->print($AlcatelUser);
$conn->waitfor('/Password : $/i');
$conn->print($AlcatelPasswd);

# retrieve 'ip aplist' command output
my @output = $conn->cmd("ip aplist");
$conn->close;
#print @output; #uncomment to debug output

# loop through output array. Find the ADSL interface specified at
# program start and then get the RX / TX stats for that interface.
# drop out of loop after match as can have multiple ints of same name.
my $i = 0;
until (!$output[$i]) {
        if ($output[$i] =~ /\s$IntName\s/) {
                my $a = $i + 3;
                print "$1\n" if $output[$a] =~ /bytes:([0-9]+)/g; #in bytes
                print "$1\n" if $output[++$a] =~ /bytes:([0-9]+)/; #out
bytes
                print "its 1am\n"; #time string
                print "$IntName\n"; #host name - in this case interface
                last;
        }
        $i++;
}

sub UsageText
{
        die <<HELPTEXT;
        
        getstats.pl v1.0
        ----------------
        Used to retrieve interface statistics from Alcatel Speedtouch
        due to lack of SNMP availability on the internal interface.
        The interface names can be determined by doing a 'ip aplist'
        from the Alcatel's CLI.
        ----------------
        Rob Harrowfield
        robboh\@xtra.co.nz

        
        Usage: getstats [interfacename]
        eg: getstats ADSLNZ
                
HELPTEXT
}

--- snip ----

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Johnson [mailto:arachnid@mad.scientist.com]
> Sent: 3 April 2002 6:15PM
> To: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
> Subject: [OT] Traffic monitoring on DSL link
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a Jetstart ADSL connection, terminated with an
> Alcatel Speed Touch
> Home, hooked up to an old 486 I have running linux and doing
> NATing/Firewalling. Unfortunately, the STHome does not seem to support
> traffic graphing, so I've been looking for other ways to do it.

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