Ulf Herge enlightened us with:
> Hi folks I just wounder if anyone knows, a program or any way to
> measure current bw through my linux router (gentoo ofcourse), and the
> total amount of data that has been transfered through it. If u type
> ifconfig u just get <RX bytes:248020164 (236.5 Mb) TX
> bytes:2420366025 (2308.2 Mb)> which are being reset to 0 again when
> reaching 9999,99 MB which is annoying :/ There must be some way to
> keep track off all the traffic that are being sent/recieved since many
> ISPs can do it. I hope someone has an answer

Take a look at snmp and mttr.

Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?