Monitor NIC usage

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> 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?

no sorry.  "apt-cache search nettop" returns nothing?

>
> 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.

*SHOCK* *HORROR*  the almighty debian doesn't have nettop ?  Even
lowly fedora includes it.


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