Monitor NIC usage

[C M Reinehr]

On Wed 12 November 2008 11:36, Michael Hipp 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?
>
> 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.

Don't know why no one is packaging nettop for Debian but I did find:

pktstat: top-like utility for network connections usage

HTH

cmr

> Thanks,
> Michael
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