[PLUG] monitoring MAGNITUDE of internet activity - how?

[Richard Owlett]

On 03/01/2017 07:23 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
> On 03/01/2017 02:33 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> *NOTE BENE*
>> Capitalization in subject line semantically important :>
>>
>> I have significant bandwidth constraints.
>> I have been asked to participate in a project requiring significant data
>> transfers.
>> I wish to run a test case to estimate the connectivity "cost".
>> If it is significant, I use Debian Jessie.
>> For the test case the source/destination is of secondary importance.
>>
>> Is there a tool which can be
>>   "turned on"  at time t0
>>   "turned off" at time t1
>> which will report the number of
>>    "uploaded"   bytes
>>    "downloaded" bytes
>> in that interval?
>>
>> If the tool reports more, no problem -- it will likely be ignored.
>> TIA
>>
>
> I forgot about this one.  Probably easier to use as a shell script:
> http://humdi.net/vnstat/
>

Not fine grained enough for the project which triggered my question.
However, it can likely answer questions that haven't arisen yet. As it's 
in the Debian repository I'll install and give it a test run.