is there a utillity...?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Nov 03), Gary Kline said:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 12:55:28AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Nov 02), Gary Kline said:
> > > On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > > The Bps Down is supposed to me 1M.  Up is 864Kbps.  I spent hours
> > > > > googling around and trying things.  So far, not much.  ---It
> > > > > occured that I _might_ be geting the full thru-put; that it is
> > > > > data that is flowing in via the background that stalls things.  (I
> > > > > have just shut off the automated flow.)
> > > > 
> > > > You can run "systat -if" to see how much bandwidth is being used by
> > > > the computer.  At 1M you should see around 120KB/s downlink.
> > > 
> > > Yes... outstanding.  Is there any sort of GUI app tat has this in a
> > > geaph or histogram?
> > 
> > Not a gui app, but I use "netstat -I em0 1" a lot to watch my network
> > activity.  Replace em0 with your nic device.  Gkrellm is a gui app that
> > gives you little network histograms for each interface, but they're
> > little :)
> 
> 	I think this little gadget is neat!  Not much on the network
> 	section, tho.  The Config window/dialog has a space to type in
> 	a  string for "Net" ...   I have "NIC" for the "Optional label";
> 	what command string should I enter below?

You don't need to fill either one in.  The optional label will show up just
above the interface name in the display, and entering a command string turns
the interface name into a button you can click to launch that command.

If you right-click on one of the charts, you can change the scale, and the
drawing style for TX/RX data.
 
> 	gary
> 
> 	PS:  I d/loaded a different face// ["theme"?] for this, but went
> 	back to the default!
> 
> 	OH: PPS: How should I activate "lo"?

Just check the "Enable lo0" checkbox in the config tab for the lo0
interface, in the Builtins->Net category.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com