Comments on: Linux: Get Realtime Bandwidth Statistics Using Stock Commands

By: Daniel Miessler

Daniel Miessler — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:12:35 +0000

Thanks, I should have mentioned that. :)

birlinn — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:09:05 +0000

for Debian (at least for Debian etch) that should be MiB

Tim — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:30:19 +0000

I believe the point was to be able to monitor network activity without installing anything.

Personally, I prefer using the -s switch to ifconfig, like so:

$ watch -n1 ifconfig -s eth0

...which outputs something like this:

Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg eth0 1500 0 104129 0 0 0 107071 0 0 0 BMRU

...but it's in a mono space font so all the columns line up.

Iain — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:30:38 +0000

I have been using bwm-ng (http://www.gropp.org/?id=projects&sub=bwm-ng) but I’ll give your command a try.

Aleksandersen — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:53:44 +0000

Thanks. But is it not easier to add a bandwidth monitor to one’s Gnome panel?