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Any good programs to monitor RX/TX Traffic


Thanks

>On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:21:16 +1300, Peter M wrote:

> Any good programs to monitor RX/TX Traffic
>
>
> Thanks


If linux based.....

sudo apt-get install vnstat

then

ifconfig

note active eth e.g eth0, eth1 etc

then

vnstat -u -i eth0 (assuming eth0 active) (most likely need to be root)

then for hourly transfer amount (all on one line)

xterm -bg white -fg black -font -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-32-*-*-*-*-*-
iso8859-* -T "vnstat hourly" -hold -e vnstat -h

or daily transfer amount (all on one line)

xterm -bg white -fg black -font -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-
iso8859-* -T "vnstat daily" -hold -e vnstat

Can do weekly and monthly as well.

Adjust above commands to adjust font size (i.e change 18 or 32)

man vnstat for more info

or

http://humdi.net/vnstat/

Regards
Lodi

> xterm -bg white -fg black -font -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-32-*-*-*-*-*- iso8859-* -T "vnstat hourly" -hold -e vnstat -h

I love the elegant simplicity of linux commands....

Regards

Ron

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:21:16 +1300, Peter M wrote:

>
> Any good programs to monitor RX/TX Traffic

Don't know if this will do what you want. I haven't used it either, I just
spotted it in another NG, today.

<http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/kiwi_syslog_server/>

--
dee

Mike Dee wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:21:16 +1300, Peter M wrote:
>
>> Any good programs to monitor RX/TX Traffic
>
> Don't know if this will do what you want. I haven't used it either, I just
> spotted it in another NG, today.
>
> <http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/kiwi_syslog_server/>
>
Do not under any circumstances use a real email address to sign up to
Solarwinds - they will spam you silly with upgrade offers, trial ofers
and general bullshit for evermore.

Their software however is really good, as are the Kiwi Enterprises apps
that they have just bought (a pity really as the price will now go
through the roof).

Ron McNulty wrote:
>> xterm -bg white -fg black -font -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-32-*-*-*-*-*- iso8859-* -T "vnstat hourly" -hold -e vnstat -h
>
> I love the elegant simplicity of linux commands....
>
> Regards
>
> Ron

Easier to cut and paste than a list of tabs to find and buttons to click.

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:19:10 +1300, EMB wrote:

>> <http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/kiwi_syslog_server/>
>>
> Do not under any circumstances use a real email address to sign up to
> Solarwinds - they will spam you silly with upgrade offers, trial ofers and
> general bullshit for evermore.

Thanks for the heads-up. I haven't as yet downloaded this or registered
with solarwinds. It's good to know if a company likes to spam you, well in
advance

--
dee

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:31:45 +1100, Mike Dee <> wrote:

>On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:19:10 +1300, EMB wrote:
>
>>> <http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/kiwi_syslog_server/>
>>>
>> Do not under any circumstances use a real email address to sign up to
>> Solarwinds - they will spam you silly with upgrade offers, trial ofers and
>> general bullshit for evermore.
>
>Thanks for the heads-up. I haven't as yet downloaded this or registered
>with solarwinds. It's good to know if a company likes to spam you, well in
>advance



Thanks for the Help but all I want is a dead simple program that will monitor
all my Lan usage traffic, so I don't exceed my Cap.

Running on XP..

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:54:10 +1300, Peter M wrote:

> Thanks for the Help but all I want is a dead simple program that will
> monitor all my Lan usage traffic, so I don't exceed my Cap.
>
> Running on XP..

I know there's a Firefox extension that will do this.
<http://netusage.iau5.com/>

Here's a link to some others (including FF extensions) that look fairly
user friendly:
<http://www.zepy.net/archives/how-to-save-internet-bandwidth-usage-with-free-software-firefox-extension.html>

HTH

--
dee

Peter M wrote:

> ... all I want is a dead simple program that will monitor all my Lan usage
> traffic, so I don't exceed my Cap.

You have a cap on dialup??