measuring broadband usage

[Gary Jarrel]

I believe that shorewall has accounting option. I use Ubuntu as a
second firewall behind the router before the packets hit my networks,
and shorewall as the firewall system and it has a traffic accounting
option which is described at: http://www.shorewall.net/Accounting.html

gary

On 11/24/06, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
> We just switched to a metered broadband package here. With a limit at
> 40GB (download) per month and rather hefty costs incurred for going in
> excess of that limit.
>
> Access is via a Belkin wireless router that acts a gateway and provides
> connectivity for the local network.
>
> I am rigging up another machine to act as a server and what I'm aiming
> at is that it can somehow record the internet usage of ALL the computers
> on the local network.
>
> I know that this would mean it would have to become some kind of proxy
> system so that connections are made through it BUT I do not want it to
> be a full-blown squid cache. The requirements are:
>         1. Be able to record download/upload statistics.
>         2. Provide a web-based admin page so that users can easily see the
> stats from the other computers and administer it.
>
> What are the options?
>
> Many thanks and regards
>
> Gabe
>
>
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