Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:46:22 -0400 From: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> To: <beni@brinckman.info>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Tobias Kirschstein <lev@nupfel.de> Subject: Re: simple network traffic query tool Message-ID: <013d01c8a968$89c71e00$6501a8c0@GRANT> References: <20080424181040.GB14991@nupfel.de> <200804281800.46883.beni@brinckman.info>
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Take a look at ipa.
-Grant
----- Original Message -----
From: "beni" <beni@brinckman.info>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc: "Tobias Kirschstein" <lev@nupfel.de>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: simple network traffic query tool
> On Thursday 24 April 2008 18:10:40 Tobias Kirschstein wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> i'm looking for a small tool to query the current network traffic (kb
>> IN and OUT) per interface. is there any sysctl or tool which gives me a
>> similar output to "systat -ifstat":
>>
>> /0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10
>> Load Average ||||
>>
>> Interface Traffic Peak Total
>> lo0 in 0.000 KB/s 0.000 KB/s 226.079
>> KB
>> out 0.000 KB/s 0.000 KB/s 226.079
>> KB
>>
>> wpi0 in 0.000 KB/s 0.000 KB/s 164.577
>> MB
>> out 0.000 KB/s 0.000 KB/s 6.205
>> MB
>>
>> the background:
>> unfortunately the network monitor build into superkaramba does not work
>> for freebsd, os i want to write a widget which uses sysctl or any other
>> tool if available got get this information. systat is not appropriate
>> to be used because it does not terminate on its own as i see.
>
> I'm using a modified version of Superkarambas CompactMonitor. It is
> written
> for Linux I think, but easily adaptable for freebsd.
> All I did was moddify the
> ~/.kde/share/apps/superkaramba/themes/CompactMonitor/CompactMonitor.theme
> file :
>
> text x=435 y=50 sensor=network device="vr0" format="%in KB/s"
> decimals=1
> text x=370 y=50 value="Download"
> text x=570 y=50 sensor=program program="netstat -ibh | grep Link#1 |
> awk '{print $7}'" align=right interval=1000
>
> text x=435 y=65 sensor=network device="vr0" format="%out KB/s" decimals=1
> text x=370 y=65 value="Upload"
> text x=570 y=65 sensor=program program="netstat -ibh | grep Link#1 |
> awk '{print $10}'" align=right interval=1000
>
> Add
> graph x=370 y=30 sensor=network device="vr0" format="%out" w=200 h=15
> color=255,127,127 interval=1000 max=100
> graph x=370 y=30 sensor=network device="vr0" format="%in" w=200 h=15
> color=127,230,180 interval=1000 max=100
> if you want to add a graphic representation and change the "vr0" according
> to
> your (ethernet) device.
>
> It works for me with kde 3.5.8 on 7.0-stable.
> --
> Beni.
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