[Techtalk] network tools

[John Elliott]

On April 6, 2002 05:43 pm, Hamster wrote:
> > > 2. Traffic counters. By this I mean being able to monitor on a per
> > > interface basis the amount of traffic going in and out. A programme
> > > that tells you something like 240bytes has gone outward from eth1 and
> > > 397 bytes have come in on eth0.
> >
> > 'ifconfig' can tell you these stats .. as for pretty programs that graph
> > daily statistics, etc. i've never used them for my personal use.
>
> Doesnt ifconfig just tell you the number of packets? I mean right now its
> telling me  11087444 packets have been sent - but I still have no idea the
> quantity - ie I was looking for something to say, 15M has gone out eth0,
> not 1234 packets have gone out.
>
> Thanks for all the info though!
>
> Hamster
>
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