Simple Network Traffic script

[Tim Traver]

mrtg is to collect and graph statistics from local and remote hosts...we 
use it for network info on switches, etc. Which means that I can 
ultimately get that info if I go find the switch port its on, and jump 
through some other hoops.

I just want a command line script that shows me how much bandwidth is 
being sent and received in the last x seconds...

Kind of like top for network bandwidth.

it can't be that hard...

t


Josh Paetzel wrote:

>On Friday 12 November 2004 20:56, Tim Traver wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>ok, this may be a dumb question, but does anyone know where I can
>>find a simple script that shows the network traffic to and from
>>your local box ?
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>>using netstat -i 5,  can see the traffic over 5 seconds, but then I
>>need to do a bunch of calculations to try and get a reasonable
>>number.
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>>I looked at ntop, but couldn't get it to work...
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>>there must be a simpler way...
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>>Thanks,
>>
>>Tim.
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>Well, there's mrtg in the ports tree, it may or not fit your 
>definition of simple.
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