Monitoring Threshold Interface

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On Thursday 11 December 2008 10:04:30 Mel wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 December 2008 11:57:34 Gian Paolo Buono wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like monitoring an interface and allarm if it exceeds the
> > threshold of 900 Mbit.
> >
> > Do you know any struments ?
>
> net/bmon can monitor and put into a database or dump to text file. From
> there anything is possible. It doesn't use much in terms of resources.

He could use "netstat -I $interface $interval".
E.g. "netstat -I fxp0 1".

I assume that Gian is talking about 900mbits/sec.

Nikos