diff --git a/plugins/other/host_traffic b/plugins/other/host_traffic
index df1a384e..a0a4e0bd 100755
--- a/plugins/other/host_traffic
+++ b/plugins/other/host_traffic
@@ -1,64 +1,98 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# probably will run with sh
 
 # Plugin to monitor traffic rate to specific host.
 #
 # Requirements:
-#       - tcpdump
-#       - should be run as root or any other user for tcpdump
+#	- tcpdump
+#	- should be run as root or any other user for tcpdump
 #
 # Parameters supported:
-#
-#       config
+#	config
+#	autoconf
 #
 # Configurable variables
 #
-#       type            - monitor type. Available values: packets, bytes. Defaults to packets because it's faster
-#       hostname        - mandatory. Hostname (ip) to monitor connections to. Actually just a part of tcpdump expr
+#	type       - monitor type. Available values: packets, bytes. Defaults to packets because it's faster
+#	hostname   - mandatory. Hostname (ip) to monitor connections to. Actually just a part of tcpdump expr.
+#                    Thus a hack: '1.2.3.4 and port 80' will monitor port 80 only. Bingo!
+#	interface  - self-explanatory
+#
+# IMPORTANT! This plugin spawns 'tcpdump' process along with bash shell piping tcpdump output there
+# PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO KILL when removing plugin/stopping/etc. You can kill any of three, the others should die
 #
 # Revision 0.1  2011/08/06 Artem Sheremet
+# Revision 0.2  2011/10/23 -
+
+INTERVAL=300
 
 if [ -z "$type" ]; then
         type=packets
 fi
 
 if [ -z "$hostname" ]; then
-        echo "Configuration problem"
+        echo "Configuration problem" >&2
         exit 1
 fi
 
+if [ "$interface" ]; then
+	interface="-i $interface"
+fi
+
+TCPDUMP="tcpdump $interface -nqt host $hostname"
+
 if [ "$1" = "config" ]; then
-        echo "graph_title Number of $type to and from $hostname"
+        echo "graph_title Number of $type for host $hostname"
         if [ "$type" == "bytes" ]; then
                 echo "graph_args --base 1024"
         fi
         echo "graph_category network"
         echo "graph_vlabel $type per second"
-        echo "graph_info This plugin shows number of $type within $hostname through the tcp protocol using tcpdump"
-        echo "$type.label $type within $hostname"
+        echo "graph_info This plugin shows number of $type within host $hostname through the tcp protocol using tcpdump"
+        echo "rate.label $type within $hostname"
         exit 0
 fi
 
-TMP_DIR=/tmp/host_traffic_${hostname}_${type}
+TMP_DIR="/tmp/host_traffic_${hostname}_${type}"
 
-if [ ! -f $TMP_DIR ]; then
-        mkdir -p $TMP_DIR
+if [ ! -d "$TMP_DIR" ]; then
+	mkdir -p "$TMP_DIR"
 fi
 
-if [ -f $TMP_DIR/pid ]; then
-        if [ "$type" == "packets" ]; then
-                echo packets.value $[`wc -l $TMP_DIR/data | cut -d' ' -f1`/300]
-        fi
+if [ -f "$TMP_DIR/pid" ]; then
+	PID=`cat "$TMP_DIR/pid"`
 
-        kill -TERM `cat $TMP_DIR/pid`
-
-        if [ "$type" == "bytes" ]; then
-                gawk -Ftcp '
-BEGIN { total = "U"; } # U = Unknown.
-      { total = total + $2; }
-END   { print "bytes.value", total/300; }' $TMP_DIR/data
-        fi
+	if [ -z "$PID" -o ! -d /proc/$PID ]; then
+		unset PID
+	fi
 fi
 
-tcpdump -n -q -t host $hostname >$TMP_DIR/data 2>/dev/null &
-echo $! > $TMP_DIR/pid
+if [ "$PID" ]; then
+	rm -f "$TMP_DIR/value"
+	# IPC: call data print & reset
+	kill -USR1 $PID
+	# wait 10 sec for data to arrive
+	for i in {1..10}; do
+		if [ -r "$TMP_DIR/value" ]; then
+			VALUE=`cat "$TMP_DIR/value"`
+			echo $VALUE $INTERVAL | awk '{ printf("rate.value %.3f\n", $1/$2) }'
+			exit 0
+		fi
+		sleep 1
+	done
+	echo "rate.value U"
+else
+	$TCPDUMP 2>/dev/null | (
+		COUNTER=0
+		# IPC: install SIGUSR1 handler
+		trap 'echo $COUNTER > "$TMP_DIR/value"; COUNTER=0' SIGUSR1
+		echo $BASHPID >"$TMP_DIR/pid"
+		while read line; do
+			if [[ "$type" == "bytes" ]]; then
+				# get the last field separated by space
+				COUNTER=$(($COUNTER+${line/* /})) 2>/dev/null
+			else
+				COUNTER=$(($COUNTER+1))
+			fi
+		done
+	) 2>/dev/null &
+fi