[Dxspider-support] how much internet data volume ?

[ON6HH Roland Huysentruyt]

Many tnx Oleg !
73
Roland

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Roland Huysentruyt  Tel 051 303000

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oleg Chernyawski" <uu1dx at uu1dx.com>
To: "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] how much internet data volume ?


> 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
>
>
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