Monitor eth0, number of bytes passed through??
 

Is there a way using a bash command to monitor the amount of bytes being sent from the computer to another. Meaning i want to send a lot of files and i want to monitor the amount of bytes being transfered from the computer thats sending the files. ie, the computer monitors the size of files its sent every few seconds or something and can show it in the console. I will setup all the timing and stuff i just dont know if there's a command that can do this or is there anything i can see using a bash command that would show the amount of data sent.??

Thanks for any ideas
Marcus

If you only need to see the bytes in/out of your PC you can use ifconfig:
I've never needed to do it by each IP address though...

thanks, i've managed to get it to what i want via
show up only the bytes ben sent which i can output to a file or variable which is what i needed thanks

And even to make it look more live & get a working feel;

Try this..
#watch -n1 "ifconfig eth1 | grep 'TX bytes' | cut -d' ' -f17 | cut -d':' -f2"

Thanks for that Amit, i can have looked at that and checked out what it does. Its a good feature and am looking to actually use it somewhere else, doesn't quite work with what i was trying to get but its still very useful to know so thanks
Regards
Mark