Stephen Gran on 16 Apr 2004 17:30:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] How to check bandwidth usage remotely via command-line?


On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:00:22PM -0400, Mike Leone said:
> Let's assume this situation:
> 
> 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
> 
> 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?
> 
> (I can tell from the system response time that everything is slow. Just
> would like to know how much bandwidth is being eaten up at any point in
> time)

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HTH,
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