Dual Linux and Windows users

[Jongi]

I have my PC setup with linux and XP. As a result I will surf the net from either OS and will thus use up bandwith on either platform. The problem is that I would like a bandwith monitor with which I can edit the usage to reflect the usage I used while on the other OS. Is this possible?

 

[ic]

Yes - simply put a Smoothwall or IPCop box inbetween UTD and your linux/windows PC, then get usage data from SWE2 or IPCop.

 

[native]

I have my PC setup with linux and XP. As a result I will surf the net from either OS and will thus use up bandwith on either platform. The problem is that I would like a bandwith monitor with which I can edit the usage to reflect the usage I used while on the other OS. Is this possible?

what linux are you using?

 

[Jongi]

ic: if those solutions need another box I unfortunately don't have one.

native: Mandriva LE 2005

 

[Jongi]

ic: I suspect though that is the only solution but was hoping that there might just be software that can be edited as to what usage they should start at.

 

[ic]

Jongi, it is the only effective solution I can suggest at this time.

But you need to answer Native's question though .

 

[native]

Running smoothwall you will need another box.
You can get a cheap box for R400 @ http://www.scraptronics.co.za/computers2.htm

 

[Jongi]

I only run as a standalone PC. Getting a box seems excessive.

ic: I answered that I use Mandriva LE 2005 although it is likely that I will be changing to SuSE.

 

[ic]

Sorry, I admit I was not paying attention...//slaps self

 

[regardtv]

Actually, how about looking at using RRDtool and MRTG ... both these free opensource tools run on *nix & windows ... should do traffic accounting and graphing quite nicely...

If you have a shared folder between the 2 OS' you could even store the .rdd databases there and then a single graph would be drawn across sessions....

 

[Jongi]

Actually, how about looking at using RRDtool and MRTG ... both these free opensource tools run on *nix & windows ... should do traffic accounting and graphing quite nicely...

If you have a shared folder between the 2 OS' you could even store the .rdd databases there and then a single graph would be drawn across sessions....

That's the kind of solution I was looking for

 

[Crash]

MRTG is a bitch to setup and to get it to go between the two OS's should be fun.
MRTG shows the current usage of a line, as far as I know it doesn't do bandwidth monitoring, you would need somehting like BandwidthD to check bandwidth usage.