DISQUS

Aleksandersen · 2 years ago

Thanks. But is it not easier to add a bandwidth monitor to one's Gnome panel?

Iain · 2 years ago

I have been using bwm-ng (http://www.gropp.org/?id=projects&sub=bwm-ng) but I'll give your command a try.

Tim · 2 years ago

I believe the point was to be able to monitor network activity without installing anything.

Personally, I prefer using the -s switch to ifconfig, like so:

$ watch -n1 ifconfig -s eth0

...which outputs something like this:

Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0 1500 0 104129 0 0 0 107071 0 0 0 BMRU

...but it's in a mono space font so all the columns line up.

birlinn · 2 years ago

for Debian (at least for Debian etch) that should be MiB

Daniel Miessler · 2 years ago

Thanks, I should have mentioned that. :)