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Extracting current Bandwidth usage

Posted by n3r0x, 07-26-2011, 08:18 PM

Hey, Im looking to extract current bandwidth usage from shell on FreeBSD without installing a Network monitoring app (using default networking tools) Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Posted by relichost, 07-27-2011, 02:32 PM

Hi ifconfig and then write some scripts to extract the information from the output. Thanks

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Posted by viGeek, 07-27-2011, 03:22 PM

You can try: iftop Can't recall if that's a base FreeBSD package, believe it is. Alternatively: cat /proc/net/dev Can give you some type of indication.

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Posted by n3r0x, 07-27-2011, 03:50 PM

ifconfig doesn´t display usage on this server for some reason (might be a FreeBSD thing) fxp0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8 ether inet netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active already know about iftop.. but im not after installing a monitoring app on each server just to check current used upload transferspeed at a particular point (every 5min or so)..

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Posted by tchen, 07-27-2011, 06:18 PM

This might help, its from munin's network monitoring scripts

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