Monitor NIC usage

[Michael Hipp]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. Any idea what sort of package nettop might be buried in on an 
Ubuntu/Debian system?

Google seems to know nothing about it (nettop is a category of mini laptop).
And a search of the repos finds 'jNettop' and 'nethogs'.

NEVERMIND: Eventually found the home page here: http://srparish.net/scripts/

I'm guessing Debian isn't packaging it so I'll try nethogs or jNettop.

Thanks,
Michael