Tracking data transfer?

[Nathan Kinkade]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:02:24PM +0530, Subhro wrote:
> > > Could anyone suggest me a port which will allow me to keep a watch on the
> > > net data transfer that had occured through a particular IP that is
> > > associated with the NIC of my box?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > S.
> >
> > 
> > Check trafshow. You can also use tcpdump for more detiled info or mrtg for
> > summary info :)
> > 
>
> I meant a watch on the total data transferred through or from the IP
> in questions, not the packets which are transferred via that IP.
> 
> Regards
> S.

trafshow gives some summary stats at the bottom of the screen, such as
total bytes, bytes/s, and total packets.  you can pass expressions to
trafshow such as "host 10.0.1.1" - the same expression syntax as that of
tcpdump, I believe.

Nathan
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