Calculating Upload and Download Rate

I want to calculate my node's upload and download speed every 30 secs
so that I can inform my peers about my connection speed. My node is
running Linux OS. I would like to know if there's a variable that I
can peek under /proc which will have a most up to date value of my
node's upload and download rate. If not, how do I calculate those
values. I really appreciate any help.

Thanks

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> I want to calculate my node's upload and download speed every 30 secs
> so that I can inform my peers about my connection speed. My node is
> running Linux OS. I would like to know if there's a variable that I
> can peek under /proc which will have a most up to date value of my
> node's upload and download rate. If not, how do I calculate those
> values. I really appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks
>
>

There is nothing like this in /proc that I know of. Your upload/download
rates are dependent on the host you are uploading to / downloading from.
You could write a script that sends and receives packets from one end of
the link to the other and times their responses. I recall Apache having
some sort of bandwidth measuring module or something like that. I can't
remember exactly what it was (or did) though.


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Sir Jackery