simple network traffic query tool

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

Hello,

Tobias Kirschstein pisze:

> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:20:35 +0200
> Roger Olofsson <raggen at passagen.se> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Tobias Kirschstein skrev:
>> > 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.
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> If you want something more of a web service you could install SNMP
>> from ports and use Cacti (also from ports). See http://www.cacti.net/
>> for a quick glance at what you'll get.
> 
> thanks to all for your suggestions. i looked into the tools but
> unfortunately none was simple enough so that its output could be easily
> parsed and used as a superkaramba sensor. finally i came across
> "ifstat" (also from ports) which seems to be what i was looking for,
> but nevertheless thanks for your help :)


I hope I am not stealing the thread by asking an additional question. 
Thanks to this thread I discovered :) systat -ifstat and other switches. 
Does such data like below survive reboots?

  re0  in      8.062 KB/s         13.414 KB/s            1.987 GB
  	out    21.561 KB/s         53.346 KB/s            3.043 GB

Thanks!

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