Tracking Total Bandwidth Usage for Month

Chibo · 08-08-2004, 01:18 AM

I'm looking for a program that will track total bandwidth usage per month on FreeBSD... Something like vnstat is for linux (http://humdi.net/vnstat/) Any recommendations? Thanks

frob23 · 08-08-2004, 01:42 AM

Have you taken a look at netstat? It is part of the default install and allows you to see how many bytes in and out of an interface.

Example: netstat -I xl0 -b

Note: I do not know at what point the numbers roll over (if ever) or if there is a way to zero the count after you read it. I am currently at a windows machine and unable to test this.

It is a start at the very least.

Edit: You might also be interested in
/usr/ports/net/bmon
Which appears similar to the old tool you were using.

Chibo · 08-08-2004, 01:47 AM

Thanks, I suppose I could take those figures and update every few minutes, somewhat like vnstat does. Thanks

frob23 · 08-08-2004, 01:56 AM

Well, netstat has a wait option (just put -w 180 on the end of the command line above to wait three minutes then output again). But it isn't very pretty or user friendly.

netstat -I xl0 -b -w 5

That will show you an updated display every 5 seconds (the byte count will start with the total then be the number since the last line)