Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 23:33:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Hunt <jhunt@lynden.on.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Measuring throughput of network Message-ID: <20020529232847.M95828-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020530024829.GD78068@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Wed, 29 May 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 29), Stephen Montgomery-Smith said: > > Is there a way to measure how many bytes go through a network card? So > > I type something like > > command rl0 > > and it replies: > > out 134513 bytes > > in 45232 bytes > > or maybe there is a sysctl variable that does this. > > netstat -ib. Note that all the numbers wrap at 4gb, so if you're > planning on graphing the values, you'll need to make sure your poll > period is less than 1/2 your wrap period. > Another possibility, which was mentioned last week by Mike Tancsa on the freebsd-net mailing list, is to use snmpd (http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/) and MRTG (http://www.mrtg.org/). Both of these are available in the ports tree. If you already use MRTG for monitoring things like routers/switches, then this is a good choice. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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