Monitor NIC usage

[Ronnie Gauthier]

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 10:45:58 am Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.

http://srparish.net/scripts/

Ronnie