Hi,
If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra?
On 11/27/18 9:50 PM, Tim via users wrote:
If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra?
Are you saying you have a single system with only traffic going to the ISP?
I've never cared about the amount of traffic since they don't change for usage here in Taiwan. My router does keep track. It only shows stats for either 24hrs or the past Week.
Since eth0 is the WAN interface I could use
ip -s -h link show eth0
since the router is Linux based. And find the traffic since it was booted.
wifi> ip -s -h link show eth0 4: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:11:32:76:13:a7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff RX: bytes packets errors dropped overrun mcast 356G 267M 0 0 0 0 TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns 28.1G 113M 0 0 0 0 wifi> uptime 22:16:09 up 17 days, 17:22, load average: 0.65, 0.59, 0.45
Without knowledge of your network topology it isn't clear if something as simple as that will satisfy your needs.
If not, I suppose I'd do something like
dnf search traffic
to see if something pops out.
Tim:
If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra?
Ed Greshko:
Are you saying you have a single system with only traffic going to the ISP?
No, it's several devices going through a modem/router, which doesn't really give enough info, so I was hoping I could find something on the computer to rule it in or out as being the sudden upturn in traffic.
While basic info is easy to find out (like how much data since it connected), that doesn't tell me anything about what it used yesterday, or the day before, etc.
I'd been keeping an eye on that, day by day, manually, as I was getting closer to going over my monthly quota, then suddenly I've been rated limited as 12 gigs has gone through *somewhere*.
To make matters worse, the rate limiting is so severe that many websites just time out and fail (including the ISP's own website). While the ISP claims that they throttle you, rather than charge you more or cut you off, to allow you to continue using the internet until the next month, it doesn't work.
Conversely, when they had a network configuration fault that limited me by the same amount, earlier this year, that speed was considered so unusable as to be worthy of giving me a refund.
It seems that in today's modern high-bandwidth internet, if you can't finish loading a page in a few seconds, it aborts on you. To be more weird, the ISP has a transparent proxy, that ought to mitigate that issue (they could grab the page in one go, and feed it to you slowly). For the major ISP that is the backbone for the entire country, they're very crap at doing their job.
On 11/27/18 12:27 PM, Tim via users wrote:
Tim:
If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra?
Ed Greshko:
Are you saying you have a single system with only traffic going to the ISP?
No, it's several devices going through a modem/router, which doesn't really give enough info, so I was hoping I could find something on the computer to rule it in or out as being the sudden upturn in traffic.
While basic info is easy to find out (like how much data since it connected), that doesn't tell me anything about what it used yesterday, or the day before, etc.
I'd been keeping an eye on that, day by day, manually, as I was getting closer to going over my monthly quota, then suddenly I've been rated limited as 12 gigs has gone through *somewhere*.
To make matters worse, the rate limiting is so severe that many websites just time out and fail (including the ISP's own website). While the ISP claims that they throttle you, rather than charge you more or cut you off, to allow you to continue using the internet until the next month, it doesn't work.
Conversely, when they had a network configuration fault that limited me by the same amount, earlier this year, that speed was considered so unusable as to be worthy of giving me a refund.
It seems that in today's modern high-bandwidth internet, if you can't finish loading a page in a few seconds, it aborts on you. To be more weird, the ISP has a transparent proxy, that ought to mitigate that issue (they could grab the page in one go, and feed it to you slowly). For the major ISP that is the backbone for the entire country, they're very crap at doing their job.
Well, you could install cacti on a machine, then use it to collect and graph the SNMP data from your devices--provided they provide SNMP services and have MIBs you can use. That's what we do, but we're a streaming company with a LOT of servers, switches and routers and two 10Gbps uplinks. Perhaps that's overkill for you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Political Correctness: The insane doctrine that postulates that it - - is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
if you have sar installed (package is sysstat) then sar -n DEV will give you 10 minute network counters, it will give you 1 minute data if you turn sar's sample timer down to 1 minute.
snmp if you router supports it, and I have also ssh'ed into my router ever X minutes and collected its network stats on routers that did not properly support snmp. On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:28 PM Tim via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
Tim:
If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra?
Ed Greshko:
Are you saying you have a single system with only traffic going to the ISP?
No, it's several devices going through a modem/router, which doesn't really give enough info, so I was hoping I could find something on the computer to rule it in or out as being the sudden upturn in traffic.
While basic info is easy to find out (like how much data since it connected), that doesn't tell me anything about what it used yesterday, or the day before, etc.
I'd been keeping an eye on that, day by day, manually, as I was getting closer to going over my monthly quota, then suddenly I've been rated limited as 12 gigs has gone through *somewhere*.
To make matters worse, the rate limiting is so severe that many websites just time out and fail (including the ISP's own website). While the ISP claims that they throttle you, rather than charge you more or cut you off, to allow you to continue using the internet until the next month, it doesn't work.
Conversely, when they had a network configuration fault that limited me by the same amount, earlier this year, that speed was considered so unusable as to be worthy of giving me a refund.
It seems that in today's modern high-bandwidth internet, if you can't finish loading a page in a few seconds, it aborts on you. To be more weird, the ISP has a transparent proxy, that ought to mitigate that issue (they could grab the page in one go, and feed it to you slowly). For the major ISP that is the backbone for the entire country, they're very crap at doing their job.
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On 11/27/18 2:22 PM, Roger Heflin wrote:
if you have sar installed (package is sysstat) then sar -n DEV will give you 10 minute network counters, it will give you 1 minute data if you turn sar's sample timer down to 1 minute.
snmp if you router supports it, and I have also ssh'ed into my router ever X minutes and collected its network stats on routers that did not properly support snmp.
Which is why I suggested cacti/RRDTool. RRD does the SNMP fetch/decode, cacti graphs it in a pretty readable format. All Linux systems support SNMP. SOHO routers _may_ support it. Probably many don't.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:28 PM Tim via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
Tim:
If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra?
Ed Greshko:
Are you saying you have a single system with only traffic going to the ISP?
No, it's several devices going through a modem/router, which doesn't really give enough info, so I was hoping I could find something on the computer to rule it in or out as being the sudden upturn in traffic.
While basic info is easy to find out (like how much data since it connected), that doesn't tell me anything about what it used yesterday, or the day before, etc.
I'd been keeping an eye on that, day by day, manually, as I was getting closer to going over my monthly quota, then suddenly I've been rated limited as 12 gigs has gone through *somewhere*.
To make matters worse, the rate limiting is so severe that many websites just time out and fail (including the ISP's own website). While the ISP claims that they throttle you, rather than charge you more or cut you off, to allow you to continue using the internet until the next month, it doesn't work.
Conversely, when they had a network configuration fault that limited me by the same amount, earlier this year, that speed was considered so unusable as to be worthy of giving me a refund.
It seems that in today's modern high-bandwidth internet, if you can't finish loading a page in a few seconds, it aborts on you. To be more weird, the ISP has a transparent proxy, that ought to mitigate that issue (they could grab the page in one go, and feed it to you slowly). For the major ISP that is the backbone for the entire country, they're very crap at doing their job.
-- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64
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