[Dxspider-support] how much internet data volume ?

[Oleg Chernyawski]

ON6HH Roland Huysentruyt wrote:
> Hi all
> on0dxk-5 is on a ubuntu linuxbox .
> Anybody knows how to find out the internet data volume needed  a day ?
> Is there a linux command to look  the traffic on the network card ?
> tnx
> 73
> Roland  ON6HH
>  

Roland, there is a simple way if your ubuntu works with DXSpider and 
nothing else:

1) reboot PC, start DXSpider

check an interface status: ifconfig
or if you have few network adapters, specify an external NIC   e.g. 
ifconfig eth0

leave DXspider working

After few hours (as many as you wish) say again ifconfig and you will 
see all.

See my sample:
ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:85:ED:zz:zz
          inet addr:<skipped>  Bcast:<skipped>.15  Mask:255.255.255.240
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3707323281 errors:31374 dropped:0 overruns:0 
frame:31374
          TX packets:5060942262 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1477358742835 (1.3 TiB)  TX bytes:5825191361260 (5.2 TiB)
          Interrupt:22 Base address:0x4000

You can see RX and TX bytes as well.

Don't be afraid, this terabytes done NOT by DXSpider :)

73!
Oleg
UU1DX