Robert Heffernan wrote:
>> another one for you scripting people, if you would
>> the command pppstats gives various statistics about what pppd has been doing
> (as I'm sure you all know, and as the nae would suggest)
> I want to be able to have a script that would tell me only two of these
> stastics - the number of bytes sent and the number recieved.
> How would I do this?
pppstats -w 1 | awk '{print $1" "$10"\n"}'
Probably won't work coz I can never remember awk syntax. Play with the
"cut" command too.
>> also - having been used to connecting to the net via windows I'm used to
> knowing the connection speed. Is there any way of finding out what speed
> connection to the net pppd has established?
Configure your modem to return that info in the "CONNECT" string and
look at /var/log/messages if you have debugging on..
>> Also - how does one find out your ip address on the net?
/sbin/ifconfig|grep ppp0
I'm not at a machine with a modem right now so take the above as simply
a starting point.
Donncha.
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