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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
cc: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>,
        Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>, questions@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: IP accounting 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 03:29:07 -0700
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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.

   Actually, I use 'netstat -I de0 -b -w 60', and then calculate the per-second
average from each 60 second sample.

-DG