amount of network transfer
 

Hi there

Is it possible to gain the amount of internet usage from an exact date till now?
Are there any files that stores this informations?

I did #cat /proc/net/dev and it shows me the total amount , but I don't know how it resets?
because since I have installed nta till last night , I had almost 1.4 Gb download that showed in /proc/net/dev , but last night I saw that this amount is almost 0.3 Gb

Any ideas how this amount resets?

Regards
ArShAm

Short story the rollover happens at aprox 4.2GB (32-bit unsigned short). If you want "simple" monitoring search for Vnstat and if you want elaborate stats search for MRTG. I wonder if 2.6.x does have 64-bit unsigned longs by now.

Thanks for reply

It seems that everytime I restart the computer , /proc/net/dev rolls over

I found Munin
For those who wants to get reports as graph , maybe munin and munin-node will be usefull
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