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From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
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> I am looking at a new ISP that charges for a certain number
> gigabites of traffic. I have -no- idea what my traffic volume
> is.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a good traffic volume checker in the
> ports?

I recommend setting up snmpd + rrdtool (portinstall net/net-snmp net/rrdtool).
It's much easier and cleaner to configure than mrtg (in my experience).

If you're interested I have a few scripts that do what you want in a basic
bandwidth graphing situation for a few hosts; generating relatively sane
graphs.

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