Aparna Appaiah wrote:

Dear List,

I am using the MTNL Triband broadband service with Debian Sarge. I connect to the modem using DHCP, and get on and off by using

/etc/init.d/networking (start|stop)

Try bridged mode(instead of DHCP) to get a PPP session.

Now, I am looking for an unobtrusive way of measuring how many bytes I use up every session,

Everytime PPP session ends, the ip-down script is called with environment variables BYTES_SENT and BYTES_RCVD set as per that session. Simply 'cat' that to a log file with timestamp.

For more details: man pppd, adsl-setup

Amish