In light of my family's inability to understand a bandwidth cap, I've decided that I need a monitor for every computer in the house.
While this has been done for the Windows ones, I need one for this Ubuntu computer.
Does anyone know any that will allow me to see how much has been up/downloaded over the month?
I need a bandwidth monitor for Ubuntu.
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I need a bandwidth monitor for Ubuntu.
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Re: I need a bandwidth monitor for Ubuntu.
Try VNStat http://www.linux.com/feature/61201
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Re: I need a bandwidth monitor for Ubuntu.
It would actually make more sense, in my mind, to monitor this on your router. Is your bandwidth cap a limit in total data transfer, or is it like 95th percentile?
If you have a Linux router, an OpenBSD router, or a Cisco router (or something else that's really awesome, i.e. in the extremely unlikely event you have a Juniper in your house), or certain models of Cisco switches, you can set rate limits, that would ensure you stayed under your limit, albeit at the expense of speed.
If you have a Linux router, an OpenBSD router, or a Cisco router (or something else that's really awesome, i.e. in the extremely unlikely event you have a Juniper in your house), or certain models of Cisco switches, you can set rate limits, that would ensure you stayed under your limit, albeit at the expense of speed.
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