[H-GEN] tracking network usage

[Johann Kwiatkowski]

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On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 10:04, Nick Kwiatkowski wrote:
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> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Robert Brockway wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Johann Kwiatkowski wrote:
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> > > To get to the point, any ideas where I can proceed from here ( even if
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> > > have made an error somewhere, I would really like to know where 13 gigs
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> > Hi Johann.  If there isn't sufficient logging in place it's probably a
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> > late for this 13GB :(
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this maybe not so, thanks to Niks suggestion, I did check the adsl
modem, and it has logged 3.3 gig of data recieved in the last 23 days.

> One thought is what type of DSL Modem are you using (I can't remeber)[1].
> You may be lucky and be able to extract the logs from the modem itself. I
> can do this with my D-Link DSL-504 to match the ISP usage charges against
> the traffic that goes across the modem itself. DSL Modems interesting
> little beasts, and are useful in terms of monitoring network traffic - most
> are just little un*x machines [2].
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> Ciao,
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> Nik


thanks to Niks suggestion, I did check the adsl modem, and it has logged
3.3 gig of data recieved in the last 23 days. ringing tpg now to see
what they say,

cheers

Johan


-- 
Johann Kwiatkowski <johann at spot-the-dog.com>
Spot The Dog Graphics P/L


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