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Re: [PLUG] How to check bandwidth usage remotely via command-line?
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On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 13:58, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 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)
>
> Sorry, hit the send key too quickly last time.
>
> Use bwm (AKA Bandwidth Monitor) for this. It's exactly what you want.
Yes, it is! :-)
> For debian, apt-get install bwm will get it for you.
That's what I'm looking for. Thanks.
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