ifconfig as a native inexpensive bandwith meter

entz · 09-12-2009, 09:00 AM

Hello Folks,

this is a simple request !

i'm just looking for a cheap and handy way to keep eyeballing my network stats i.e bytes sent and received.

so i've seen many people using ifconfig to lookup what goes in and out , on a specific interface.

however , the problem with that as you might already have noticed , is that the stats are being reset at around 4gigs. (at least that's how I see it happening)

so question is , how can i instruct a typical linux system to NOT reset the figures?

thanks in advance

cheers

estabroo · 09-12-2009, 09:27 AM

gkrellm is nice for this kind of thing, keeps track of your network stats and even breaks it out into daily, weekly, monthly. you can run the daemon (gkrellmd) on headless/remote stuff and have a local gkrellm attach to it.

entz · 09-12-2009, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by estabroo

gkrellm is nice for this kind of thing, keeps track of your network stats and even breaks it out into daily, weekly, monthly. you can run the daemon (gkrellmd) on headless/remote stuff and have a local gkrellm attach to it.

ok will give this a try , thanx

EDIT: WAIT a minute!

isn't this a GTK program ?

well the problem is i'm looking for an app that is terminal based and requires the least amount of dependencies , effiency is also important

so something in the token of 'top' would be greatly appreciated.

cheers

estabroo · 09-12-2009, 05:37 PM

ethstatus is kind of like top for ethernet (iptraf kind of falls into that category as well), dunno about long term stats from them though

entz · 09-13-2009, 08:11 AM

Oh , iptraf is pretty much what i've been looking for

this is gonna work nicely with some of my screen hacker tricks

thanx estabroo