Limit Internet Data Transfer - Daily/Hourly

[Alsanh]

I want to Limit the Max Gb/s of data transferred every hour and every day. What application would be suited for that?

Thanks!
-Alsanh

[moody_mark]

Good question, you are probably looking at a tool which will shut off the interface if the useage reaches a certain amount. I think you might have to write a script for that, however you could look at this post here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1231690

For monitoring I can reccommend "vnstat" which gives some good command line output, for example:

$ vnstat -i eth1
Database updated: Wed May 15 10:03:12 2013

eth1 since 09/08/11

rx: 130.25 GiB tx: 78.82 GiB total: 209.06 GiB

monthly
rx | tx | total | avg. rate
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
Apr '13 5.30 GiB | 8.47 GiB | 13.76 GiB | 44.54 kbit/s
May '13 5.06 GiB | 1.82 GiB | 6.87 GiB | 46.29 kbit/s
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
estimated 10.88 GiB | 3.90 GiB | 14.78 GiB |

daily
rx | tx | total | avg. rate
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
yesterday 1.20 GiB | 114.71 MiB | 1.32 GiB | 127.68 kbit/s
today 14.90 MiB | 7.20 MiB | 22.10 MiB | 5.00 kbit/s
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
estimated 33 MiB | 16 MiB | 49 MiB |