[ilugd] Determining total bandwidth use by a network interface
Hi all, Is there a method to figure out how much data has been handled by a particular network interface on a machine since a new OS was installed or over a given span of time? The machine *has* rebooted a few times over the last year, so any logs that are temporary are gone now. It runs Ubuntu Feisty. Do NICs themselves store this data in some form? Could the the OS do so without having switched on any explicit logging? In either case, what would be a good tool to use to do this? Cheers Viksit ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Determining total bandwidth use by a network interface
I think you need Network monitor desklet =- right click on gnome-panel ==- Add to panel ===- Network Monitor =- Add This will give information of network activity and received data.. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Viksit Gaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there a method to figure out how much data has been handled by a particular network interface on a machine since a new OS was installed or over a given span of time? The machine *has* rebooted a few times over the last year, so any logs that are temporary are gone now. It runs Ubuntu Feisty. Do NICs themselves store this data in some form? Could the the OS do so without having switched on any explicit logging? In either case, what would be a good tool to use to do this? Cheers Viksit ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ -- ┌───[ Narendra Sisodiya ]──┐ │ http://narendra.techfandu.org │ http://www.lug-iitd.org └[ +91-93790-75930 ]──┘ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Determining total bandwidth use by a network interface
--- On Thu, 10/2/08, narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you need Network monitor desklet Thanks. I was talking more in terms of a command line access method though - this is a server that doesn't run X. Also, does the network monitor app keep track of ALL data I/O, ever? Or is it limited by certain factors? Cheers Viksit On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Viksit Gaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there a method to figure out how much data has been handled by a particular network interface on a machine since a new OS was installed or over a given span of time? The machine *has* rebooted a few times over the last year, so any logs that are temporary are gone now. It runs Ubuntu Feisty. Do NICs themselves store this data in some form? Could the the OS do so without having switched on any explicit logging? In either case, what would be a good tool to use to do this? Cheers Viksit ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ -- ┌───[ Narendra Sisodiya ]──┐ │ http://narendra.techfandu.org │ http://www.lug-iitd.org └[ +91-93790-75930 ]──┘ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Determining total bandwidth use by a network interface
Viksit Gaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do NICs themselves store this data in some form? Could the the OS do so without having switched on any explicit logging? The proc system keeps track of RX/TX packets until reboot. Readable in: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 |grep X But it cycles at a maximum of x packets though, where x is related to 32bit size (not sure of details and if it is different these days or varies with 64 bit kernels etc). In either case, what would be a good tool to use to do this? vnstat is a very light package that will collect those stats. But you have to install it first. vnstat can be inaccurate if you keep switching the machine off before it can process sampled data enough. PJ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
