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Linux: Get Realtime Bandwidth Statistics Using Stock Commands

Started by Daniel Miessler · 7 months ago

Have you ever been in Linux and wanted to watch how much bandwidth was going in and out of your box? Most have, and here’s a very simply way to do it without a GUI or installing anything extra:

# watch -n1 "ifconfig eth0 | grep Mb"
RX bytes:105209490 (100.3 Mb) ... Continue reading »

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Aleksandersen
2 years ago

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

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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.

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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.

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