simple network traffic query tool

[Grant Peel]

Take a look at ipa.

-Grant


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "beni" <beni at brinckman.info>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Cc: "Tobias Kirschstein" <lev at nupfel.de>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: simple network traffic query tool


> On Thursday 24 April 2008 18:10:40 Tobias Kirschstein wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> i'm looking for a small tool to query the current network traffic (kb
>> IN and OUT) per interface. is there any sysctl or tool which gives me a
>> similar output to "systat -ifstat":
>>
>>                     /0   /1   /2   /3   /4   /5   /6   /7   /8   /9   /10
>>      Load Average   ||||
>>
>>       Interface           Traffic               Peak                Total
>>             lo0  in      0.000 KB/s          0.000 KB/s          226.079 
>> KB
>>                  out     0.000 KB/s          0.000 KB/s          226.079 
>> KB
>>
>>            wpi0  in      0.000 KB/s          0.000 KB/s          164.577 
>> MB
>>                  out     0.000 KB/s          0.000 KB/s            6.205 
>> MB
>>
>> the background:
>> unfortunately the network monitor build into superkaramba does not work
>> for freebsd, os i want to write a widget which uses sysctl or any other
>> tool if available got get this information. systat is not appropriate
>> to be used because it does not terminate on its own as i see.
>
> I'm using a modified version of Superkarambas CompactMonitor. It is 
> written
> for Linux I think, but easily adaptable for freebsd.
> All I did was moddify the
> ~/.kde/share/apps/superkaramba/themes/CompactMonitor/CompactMonitor.theme
> file :
>
> text  x=435 y=50  sensor=network device="vr0" format="%in KB/s" 
> decimals=1
> text  x=370 y=50  value="Download"
> text  x=570 y=50  sensor=program program="netstat -ibh | grep Link#1 |
> awk '{print $7}'" align=right interval=1000
>
> text  x=435 y=65 sensor=network device="vr0" format="%out KB/s" decimals=1
> text  x=370 y=65 value="Upload"
> text  x=570 y=65 sensor=program program="netstat -ibh | grep Link#1 |
> awk '{print $10}'" align=right interval=1000
>
> Add
> graph x=370 y=30  sensor=network device="vr0" format="%out" w=200 h=15
> color=255,127,127 interval=1000 max=100
> graph x=370 y=30  sensor=network device="vr0" format="%in"  w=200 h=15
> color=127,230,180 interval=1000 max=100
> if you want to add a graphic representation and change the "vr0" according 
> to
> your (ethernet) device.
>
> It works for me with kde 3.5.8 on 7.0-stable.
> -- 
> Beni.
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