Simplistic bandwidth monitoring

I am in need of a fairly simple (in terms of display) bandwidth
monitoring tool.

I have tried ntop but I found the output overly complicated, and
disliked the web interface; I would prefer something that ran similarly
to top, running a single process and outputting on the terminal.

I just need something simple which can measure real time bandwidth for
overall internet usage (ppp0) and usage of internet and network from
individual interfaces.

Anyone have any ideas?

On 24 Aug 2006 10:03:11 -0700
(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> I am in need of a fairly simple (in terms of display) bandwidth
> monitoring tool.
>
> I have tried ntop but I found the output overly complicated, and
> disliked the web interface; I would prefer something that ran
> similarly to top, running a single process and outputting on the
> terminal.
>
> I just need something simple which can measure real time bandwidth for
> overall internet usage (ppp0) and usage of internet and network from
> individual interfaces.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

I made this for such purposes:

http://www.usenix.org.uk/qmail/netmon-0.02.tar.gz

It's pretty stable, I've had it running for a few weeks without any
memory leaks.

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Regards, Ed :: http://www.usenix.org.uk
just another unix person
Chuck Norris invented water so he could walk on it.

I was more after something which displayed real time usage as well as
accumulated usage - so it could say 'right this second 100K of
bandwidth is being used' or something like that though.

Thanks anyway, nice app.

ed wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2006 10:03:11 -0700
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> > I am in need of a fairly simple (in terms of display) bandwidth
> > monitoring tool.
> >
> > I have tried ntop but I found the output overly complicated, and
> > disliked the web interface; I would prefer something that ran
> > similarly to top, running a single process and outputting on the
> > terminal.
> >
> > I just need something simple which can measure real time bandwidth for
> > overall internet usage (ppp0) and usage of internet and network from
> > individual interfaces.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
>
> I made this for such purposes:
>
> http://www.usenix.org.uk/qmail/netmon-0.02.tar.gz
>
> It's pretty stable, I've had it running for a few weeks without any
> memory leaks.
>
> --
> Regards, Ed :: http://www.usenix.org.uk
> just another unix person
> Chuck Norris invented water so he could walk on it.z

Ooh, nice app - just to clarify, is the reset/sec/min the real time
usage?

Thanks.

ed wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2006 10:03:11 -0700
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> > I am in need of a fairly simple (in terms of display) bandwidth
> > monitoring tool.
> >
> > I have tried ntop but I found the output overly complicated, and
> > disliked the web interface; I would prefer something that ran
> > similarly to top, running a single process and outputting on the
> > terminal.
> >
> > I just need something simple which can measure real time bandwidth for
> > overall internet usage (ppp0) and usage of internet and network from
> > individual interfaces.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
>
> I made this for such purposes:
>
> http://www.usenix.org.uk/qmail/netmon-0.02.tar.gz
>
> It's pretty stable, I've had it running for a few weeks without any
> memory leaks.
>
> --
> Regards, Ed :: http://www.usenix.org.uk
> just another unix person
> Chuck Norris invented water so he could walk on it.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> I am in need of a fairly simple (in terms of display) bandwidth
> monitoring tool.
>
> I have tried ntop but I found the output overly complicated, and
> disliked the web interface; I would prefer something that ran similarly
> to top, running a single process and outputting on the terminal.
>
> I just need something simple which can measure real time bandwidth for
> overall internet usage (ppp0) and usage of internet and network from
> individual interfaces.

iptraf

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am in need of a fairly simple (in terms of display) bandwidth
> monitoring tool.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/iftop/

On 24 Aug 2006 10:34:25 -0700
(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Ooh, nice app - just to clarify, is the reset/sec/min the real time
> usage?

The middle column is the "this second", the minutes are the last 60
seconds of transfers.

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Here in comp.os.linux.networking, (E-Mail Removed) spake unto us, saying:

>I am in need of a fairly simple (in terms of display) bandwidth
>monitoring tool.

I run IPTRAF on my firewall box:

http://iptraf.seul.org/

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Mainframe/Unix bit twiddler by day, OS/2+Linux+DOS hobbyist by night.
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The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.

>I am in need of a fairly simple (in terms of display) bandwidth
>monitoring tool.

<snip>

Well, iptraf is one of the oldest tool -- yes, still going strong for
what you wanted. It works great through the curses interface.I usually
monitoring network traffic with iptraf along with rrdtool. They are
quite a perfect match beside that mrtg.


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Raqueeb Hassan
Bangladesh

In article <(E-Mail Removed). com>,
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I am in need of a fairly simple (in terms of display) bandwidth
> monitoring tool.
>
> I have tried ntop but I found the output overly complicated, and
> disliked the web interface; I would prefer something that ran similarly
> to top, running a single process and outputting on the terminal.
>
> I just need something simple which can measure real time bandwidth for
> overall internet usage (ppp0) and usage of internet and network from
> individual interfaces.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

gkrellm might do.

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