command to see eth traffic?

darazman · 10-25-2003, 10:27 AM

Hi,
I've seen people paste the output of the command i'm looking for, i tried searching the forms for it but I might not know what to search for i guess.
Looking for a command that will show the current traffic speed going through the devices such as eth1, eth0, ppp0
is there also a way to see how long those devices have been connected for, kinda like 'Uptime' for the system but instead for the devices?
thx people =)

tgflynn · 10-25-2003, 10:40 AM

Maybe you're thinking of iptraf ?

Tim

darazman · 10-25-2003, 10:48 AM

maybe, but typing just 'iptraf' at a Bash prompt gives me 'command not found'
this is Redhat 9.1 if that makes any difference, i would think this type of a command is generic between all the distros though, but I wouldnt know.
thx

itsjustme · 10-25-2003, 10:54 AM

Did you try running it as root?

$ su -
(password)
# iptraf

Cool app. I had not heard of it before.

tgflynn · 10-25-2003, 10:55 AM

I'm sure iptraf is available in RedHat 9. But just because it's available doesn't mean that you've installed it, so you may need to do this from CD's or whatever your RPM source is.

Before you do that though make sure it's not just a path problem. IPTRAF is usually used by root so it might not be in a user's normal path, try it under root or just check if the man pages are installed with man iptraf.

Tim

itsjustme · 10-25-2003, 11:21 AM

Hmmm... I had iptraf running and it died abruptly with a signal 11, SIGSEGV - Invalid Memory Reference.

May be a buggy app, or I just need an update from iptraf-2.7.0-3 . This is on Red Hat 8. Red Hat 9 has iptraf-2.7.0-6 .

wuck · 10-25-2003, 01:56 PM

You can use the KDE System Guard, too ...

tgflynn · 10-25-2003, 02:07 PM

I've never really had problems with iptraf, you might have a buggy version.

Tim

darazman · 10-25-2003, 02:16 PM

well thx guys, iptraf doesnt seem to be on the system, dont have a lot of free time tell like christmas comes to play around with the linux again, if I run the rpm on CD2 of the redhat cd it runs and nothing happens after that and i still cant use the iptraf command and there are no man pages installed for it either, i'll try getting the latest rpm for it later when I have the time. I was hoping I had the command in the system to use already when i asked, I installed almost everything when i did the install back in the summer.
thx again,
-raz