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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?
 
Yes - simply put a Smoothwall or IPCop box inbetween UTD and your linux/windows PC, then get usage data from SWE2 or IPCop.
 
Jongi said:
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?
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what linux are you using?
 
ic: if those solutions need another box I unfortunately don't have one.

native: Mandriva LE 2005
 
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.
 
Jongi, it is the only effective solution I can suggest at this time.

But you need to answer Native's question though ;).
 
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.
 
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....
 
regardtv said:
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....
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That's the kind of solution I was looking for
 
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.
 
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