Hi Derek,
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Derek Trotter
<expat.arizonan@gmail.com> wrote:
My ISP imposes a monthly quota. If the total amount of data I download and upload exceeds that quota I get billed extra. Everything I send or receive passes through my full time linux box. Is there something I can install on it that would monitor and log how much data passes through eth0?
thanks
<snip>
You can enable iptables to do this:
It should look like this:
iptables -N INET_OUT
iptables -N INET_IN
iptables -A FORWARD -j INET_IN
iptables -A FORWARD -j INET_OUT
iptables -A INPUT -j INET_IN
iptables -A OUTPUT -j INET_OUT
To see your data:
iptables -L -v -n
To see just your In:
/sbin/iptables -v -n -L INET_IN
To see just your Out:
/sbin/iptables -v -n -L INET_OUT
Depending on your distro, your iptables files will be saved in a directory.
You can use:
iptables-save
to save the recipe to persistent state (past a reboot or reset).
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