On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, J. Piers Hearn wrote:

> After further messing about I've ended up using netstat to dump out my data
> usage, seeing as ipf doesn't seem to want to give my byte counts, only
> packet counts. And I'm running a cron job to compare between old and new
> totals to generate a running total.

You may be interested in my simple scripts at

http://www.reedmedia.net/software/analyze_interface_bytes/log_interface_bytes.20011005

(adjust as needed)

Then run it via cron.

Then use the following for daily or weekly reports:

http://www.reedmedia.net/software/analyze_interface_bytes/analyze_interface_bytes.20011115

Examples at:

http://www.reedmedia.net/software/analyze_interface_bytes/

   Jeremy C. Reed