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Re: non-GUI network speed monitor



On Tuesday 27 April 2004 03:46, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> Anyone know of a non-GUI network speed monitor? I have a headless
> machine functioning as my router, and it would be very useful to be
> able to see total throughput for that machine when I ssh in. I could
> probably install xfree on there and get one of the GUI ones, but that's
> a whole lot of very unnecessary stuff. Any suggestions?

You could try iptraf, ethstatus or bwm.  The first is the most fully 
featured and will show down to the individual connection.  ethstatus 
shows similar information to ifconfig but in real time and bwm only 
displays the flow rate at which packets are passing.

David



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