On 2005-05-22 00:56:19 +0200 (Sun, May), 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.
Maybe it is not what you want, but if all you need is amount of data
going thru the interface, then there is a 'simple' monitor in
/sbin/ifconfig output - see the RX bytes and TX bytes.
You may find /proc/net/dev file useful too (easier to parse for scripts).
[agent] [EMAIL PROTECTED] case $ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:F5:25:A9:7E
inet addr:10.0.0.180 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:770572 (752.5 Kb) TX bytes:118492 (115.7 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:60585 (59.1 Kb) TX bytes:60585 (59.1 Kb)
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