Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 14:51:05 +0200 From: Tobias Kirschstein <lev@nupfel.de> To: beni@brinckman.info Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple network traffic query tool Message-ID: <20080524145105.3f2fd1f6@lain> In-Reply-To: <200804281800.46883.beni@brinckman.info> References: <20080424181040.GB14991@nupfel.de> <200804281800.46883.beni@brinckman.info>
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:00:46 +0000
beni <beni@brinckman.info> wrote:
> 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.
thanks a lot! i missed the device=vr0 part in my config... sometimes it
can be so simple ;)
--
ciao,
lev
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