Monitor NIC usage

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> Ok, a real content thread with no mention of presidential elections, death
> or underwear...
>
> Is there a simple tool to tell me how busy my NIC is at a given time?
> Something simple like 'top' for my eth0. Just looking for something that
> will display the current %busy, bytes/sec or somesuch.

nettop on the console works reasonably well.  MRTG is good for web
based stuff.  gkrellm for X apps.



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