Tobias DiPasquale on 16 Apr 2004 17:58:02 -0000


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


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On Friday 16 April 2004 13:45, Matthew Ozor wrote:
| I think he wants to monitor he download in real time
| if Im reading this right.
|
| How much is done, whats the transfer rate, time left,
| ect..
|
| Can you see current incoming and outgoing transfers
| from the command line and get there rate?
|

Well, neither /proc/net/dev nor bwm will give you that capability for any one 
particular connection, unfortunately. The only thing I can think of for that 
is to install an iptables ACCEPT rule that matches only the transfer you are 
interested in and watch the packet and byte counteres using iptables -L ..., 
but you'd have to do that before you initiated the connection. Otherwise, all 
you can get is the general bandwidth usage statistics from bwm or whatever. 
(bwm is nice... I just installed it and its much better than having to write 
the script to parse /proc/net/dev yourself)

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Tobias DiPasquale
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