Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 21:48:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Measuring throughput of network Message-ID: <20020530024829.GD78068@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3CF5921C.34EE1888@math.missouri.edu> References: <3CF5921C.34EE1888@math.missouri.edu>
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In the last episode (May 29), Stephen Montgomery-Smith said: > Is there a way to measure how many bytes go through a network card? So > I type something like > command rl0 > and it replies: > out 134513 bytes > in 45232 bytes > or maybe there is a sysctl variable that does this. netstat -ib. Note that all the numbers wrap at 4gb, so if you're planning on graphing the values, you'll need to make sure your poll period is less than 1/2 your wrap period. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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