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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: bandwidth usage
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970614194008.22697B-100000@leaf.lumiere-cc.com> from Jesse at "Jun 14, 97 07:45:22 pm"
To: j@lumiere-cc.com (Jesse)
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 09:44:53 +0200 (MET DST)
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> 
> Heya,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knew a simple method or program to determine how
> much data is being sent/received through my ethernet port (just coming
> from my machine, or going to my machine, not other machines on the
> ethernet). preferrably a live display that can show me how many k/sec are
> being transferred.

How about tcpdump(1)? There are some programs that take the output of
tcpdump(1) to a nice graphical displays but I never tried any of those.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ---
> Jesse <j@lumiere-cc.com>
> http://www.lumiere-cc.com/
> 
>