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To: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
cc: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>, questions@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: IP accounting 
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 03:11:50 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> As for kilobytes/interface, I dunno if that's possible without using
> some sort of packet sniffer.

Couldn't you just use the output from `netstat -ib' in a slow loop to
essentially approximate that functionality?  I don't know what kind of
granularity is required, but David was able to meter wcarchive's
bytes/sec traffic fairly well by doing that repeatedly.

					Jordan