Re: Bandwidth Monitor
I use iptraf. non-gui, which makes it nice because I can ssh into from any platform with an ssh client and run it.
(this makes it easier view the statistics anywhere, and not just from the monitor connected to that machine)
very versatile bandwidth monitor. Can monitor separate interfaces very closely and detailed [$iptraf -d ethX] [current
rate, total packets, total bytes, all for different protocols, ip, tcp, udp, icmp etc..] , watch general ip traffic on
all interfaces [$iptraf -g] or plenty of other things...
also, if you just run the program without any paramters [$iptraf] then it brings up a menu that you can navigate around
to get various statistics on network interfaces.
lastly, on a pentium 166mhz, at full bandwidth (adsl, 2.5mbps down, 1mbps up) it uses maybe 5-10% processing power. so
it's pretty easy on the processor... (I remember when I was looking for bandwidth monitors, some just used up all the
processing power in an instant... connection became very lagged...)
-doug
----- Original Message -----
From: "peter colton" <dotdebsarge@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Debian User Lists" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Bandwidth Monitor
> On Thursday 17 February 2005 18:42, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote:
>
>
> > Any one out there knows a good tool for bandwidth
> > measurement, and a monitor for the same propose.
>
> hello Sergio
>
> a genral tool i use to monitor network load is nload
>
> hope it can be of help
>
> peter colton
>
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