You may also want to look at pppstats. It can report absolute sand delta
values of data in bytes.

cheerio Berndt

> 
> 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.
> 
> So just as I get the point of looking at configuring altq, what happens? My 
> ISP decides to offer, and I quote: "The big addition is that we are now 
> offering a Flat-Rate option to existing plans, where once you hit either 
> the Peak or the Off-Peak Limit during your billing period then you will be 
> shaped to modem speeds until the beginning of the next billing period."
> Argh!!!
> Oh well, I think I'd prefer to track it myself anyway, it also lets me keep 
> a much closer eye on how much I'm using anyway...
> :-)
> Piers
> 
> At 06:35 16/12/2002, Harry Waddell wrote:
> >On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 22:03:01 +1100
> >"J. Piers Hearn" <endareth@spamcop.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to set up a system whereby once my data transfer through a
> > > specified interface (pppoe0 specifically) has passed a specified amount 
> > (in
> > > this case being my monthly 10 gigs of download), my bandwidth 
> > automatically
> > > throttles down to a lower rate, say equivalent to a 28.8k modem. I 
> > figure I
> > > can do this by some use of netstat to track my data transfer, and altq to
> > > then throttle down my interface.
> > >
> > > So far, run into the following snags: If I'm going to use netstat, I need
> > > some way to clear it's totals at the end of month, but I can't see a
> > > convenient way of doing so. Second, setting up altq, can anyone point 
> > me to
> > > any good doco on configuring it? I've found one at
> > > ftp://ftp.csl.sony.co.jp/pub/kjc/papers/altq98.ps.gz which gives good
> > > technical info about altq, but not much useful about how to configure it.
> > >
> >
> >I personally don't have much experience with it, but you could try using the
> >accounting features, i.e. using "count" in ipf.conf, of ipfilter to do the
> >counting. You should be able to reset those counters using ipf -z. The cia
> >package may be of some assistance as well. Man altq.conf has the altq config
> >info you should need.
> >
> >--
> >Harry Waddell
> >Caravan Electronic Publishing
> 
>