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On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:54:01AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Or in Gnome put the system monitor thing on a panel
> > I used to use vnstat for this on servers
> > Path:    /usr/ports/net/vnstat
> > Info:    A console-based network traffic monitor
> >
> 
> If you want to avoid proc, try
> 
> net-mgmt/iftop
> or
> net/trafshow
> 
> I prefer trafshow, but haven't tried vnstat.
> 
> -- 
> Adam Vande More


	Thanks.  I'll try trafshow, but iftop is _nice_.  i never realized
	how much traffic was happening.  Interesting...

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