Re: monitoring bandwidth?
Matthew Burgess <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lfs.general |
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:43:07 -0700, Nathan Coulson <[email protected]> wrote: > Lately, I have been noticing that there seems to be a lot of traffic > on my network, and I wanted to pinpoint the source. > > is there any packages that can break down how much up/down traffic is > being used per mac address? (Running on a WRT54G Linksys Router, w/ > 4MB flash storage) # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:CF:DA:40 inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:123 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:58605 (57.2 KiB) TX bytes:13766 (13.4 KiB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1918 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1918 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3471816 (3.3 MiB) TX bytes:3471816 (3.3 MiB) Note the last line of output which summarizes the RX (down) and TX (up) traffic. I'm not sure when each of those gets reset, but probably on a reboot. ifconfig comes from the net-tools package. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page