counting tool

stand · 03-17-2003, 04:25 AM

Hi,

Im looking for a tool that can count all the outgoing and incoming bytes get through my NIC. I need a summary of every hour(ie. how much data my pc send out and receive in from 1PM to 2PM) and a summary for the whole day and I also need a graph like MRTG does.
Thanks,

Stand

doublefailure · 03-17-2003, 04:30 AM

/sbin/ifconfig shows incoming/outgoing bytes.

about summary of every hour..
i don't know

doublefailure · 03-17-2003, 01:09 PM

i thought about it..
let cron execute ifconfig
and parse out tx, rx every hour
and substract it from the previous one
=)

cheesy, but it will work..

Shade · 08-23-2003, 12:54 AM

How is it cheesy?

Just because it isn't a tool made specifically for that, doesn't mean you can't adapt/write a script to do the work for you and append its result to a file every hour

Displaying it in a graph would be the tough part, but even that can be done with the results from the first little project.

-Shade