internet (without LAN) monthly traffic statistics

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 20:09:06 -0500,
  Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> If the NIC sees all the packets you can get a rough approximation:

If his ISP is counting packets that get dropped before they get to
is end of the local loop he won't have a way to know.

If his ISP isn't providing him this information easily, but still planning
on doing bad things if he exceeds the limit, he should be complaining to
the ISP and possibly trying to find another one.