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I want to ssh into a laptop (Ubuntu) which will be connected through a 3G connection. Therefore I need to estimate how much data I will be using to choose a suiting plan.
Separate from file transfer, for which I can easily determine how much data will be used, what is the typical amount that an ssh session uses? Is there some sort of relation, e.g. that using ls
on a directory with 50 items will cost me a certain amount of data? Or is it more time dependent and does an ssh session transmit a certain amount of data per time interval, regardless of use?
1To find the total size of the packets captured by tcpdump, one can use
capinfo
(from Wireshark) on the file written by tcpdump. e.g.capinfos dump
– Flux – 2019-06-19T14:06:12.263