As Tom is also pointing out, I was looking for a way to programmatically do this in my application. Sorry for not being specific enough in the first place.
Best regards, Fabian > On 09 Jun 2015, at 01:37, Tom Marchand <[email protected]> wrote: > > Although this won’t fit the original poster’s needs as he is looking to > implement this functionally in software, the following works very well: > > netstat -b -I <device> > > > On Jun 8, 2015, at 6:43 PM, Jeff Meegan <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> If all you want are counters, I’d probably just enable >> snmp on the host and periodically snmpget ifInOctets and ifOutOctets, >> etc. http://www.net-snmp.org/docs/mibs/interfaces.html >> <http://www.net-snmp.org/docs/mibs/interfaces.html> has a good >> overview of the Interface MIB so you can see what kind of data you >> have access to. This is pretty scriptable, too. >> >> —j >> >>> On Jun 8, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Peter Lovell <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Another suggestion - see if you can find or borrow on old-style "ethernet >>> hub". Not the more modern "switch" variety, but an old-fashioned hub - the >>> kind that broadcast all traffic on all its ports. >>> >>> If you can get one of these then you can put your traffic-collector on a >>> separate machine and that way the monitoring doesn't interfere with the >>> activity. >>> >>> Jeremy's recommendation of tcpdump/Wireshark is right on target. >>> >>> Cheers.....Peter >>> >>> >>> Jeremy Thompson <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>>> There are a couple of things you will need to do whether you use tools >>>> to capture information or write your own code. The device will need to >>>> have some sort of shell access and tools built in to packet capture. If >>>> its a OS X, BSD, Linux machine you will be able to use tcpdump. You can >>>> send that capture to a file and process with a tool. I would recommend >>>> Wireshark. Wireshark can capture as well but if the machine can't run >>>> it or doesn't have a gui you will need to capture and then process on >>>> your machine. If the device is fairly locked down you'll need to mirror >>>> the switch port its connected to. On the mirrored port you can use >>>> Wireshark, tcpdump, or your own code to do a capture. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jeremy Thompson >>>> Sports Warehouse Inc. >>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Jun 8, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Fabian Jäger >>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Dear experts, >>>>> is it possible to monitor the inbound/outbound traffic of a particular >>>> network device? I would like to print some statistics and would need the >>>> byte/s information... >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> Fabian >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Do not post admin requests to the list. 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