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Re: [PLUG] How to check bandwidth usage remotely via command-line?
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Tobias DiPasquale (toby@cbcg.net) had this to say on 04/16/04 at 13:17:
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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
> |
> | 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
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> [initiate download]
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> After download completed:
> % cat /proc/net/dev
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> Then just subtract the after from the before. All numbers are in bytes.
No, no. I want a amt of bandwidth in use at the moment, not how mych I
downloaded after it's done.
>
And I won't always have such a begining number.
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