From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 9 21:32: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B13037B401 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 21:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f9A4W1I79139; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:32:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org (Devin Smith) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: measure traffic passed on an interface Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:32:01 -0400 Message-ID: <8mj7stkldl620gcvhq0sdlt693gg6p8tmk@4ax.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:06:08 +0000 (UTC), in = sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Is there a simple way to measure traffic passed by an interface in = FreeBSD? > >IPFM looks like it will do the trick from the ports collection, but it >would be nice to have access to this info without installing extra >software. For instance... netstat -nib will give you some nice quick info from the shell. Should = you wish some nicer tracking, check out mrtg and rrdtool in /usr/ports/net. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message