Based on Mr. Llama's recommendation on pppstatus months ago, I found a
better one called ifstat from freshmeat.net.
http://gael.roualland.free.fr/ifstat/ifstat-0.5.tar.gz
it covers both all if (interface) including ppp and eth.
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