If you just want to view instant output rate without recording it there is a simple text program called nload. You can also use iftop if you want to view the rate of each connections.
2005/5/22, Sad Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > q-parser wrote: > > Jerry McBride wrote: > > > >>On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is > >>>transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't > >>>know how it works. Thanks for any advice. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >>I have a number of "text mode only" servers running iptraf for network > >>monitoring. Works quite well. If you need nicely formatted reports and > >>charts, you can't beat ntop, but you need a browser to view the data. > >> > >>Cheers. > >> > >> > > So I installed ntop, ran it and now what? > > I don't know the progs already recommended. You could also take a look > at Ethereal and Etherape which are gui based. You configure them via the > toolbar. They emerge well and I have had no problems with them. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
