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Re: [PLUG] How to check bandwidth usage remotely via command-line?
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On Friday 16 April 2004 13:00, Mike Leone wrote:
| Let's assume this situation:
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| I start a huge mother download (1.2G - yes, I said G :-), and then go to
| work. I can SSH back into my home LAN, at which point I have command-line
| only, no GUI.
| And I want to see what kind of transfer rates/bandwidth usage is happening
| - has it slowed to a crawl? Is it perking along? Is it screaming? etc
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| I know I can do things like iconfig, etc. But that isn't gonna tell me
| things like "480K bps current incoming", or whatever. Anybody know of a
| Debian package, or Linux commands, that can estimate that for me?
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Before download:
% cat /proc/net/dev
[initiate download]
After download completed:
% cat /proc/net/dev
Then just subtract the after from the before. All numbers are in bytes.
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Tobias DiPasquale
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