LAN Traffic monitoring

[cliff here]

Try Iptraf,  I don't think it has any dependencies  and I use a lot for
RHEL4.8

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:03 PM, sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for a way to monitor the traffic load, ie rate of traffic going
> in
> & out of a specific NIC on my RHES 4.6.
>
> Thought of using a script to take consecutive readings, say every 5
> seconds by taking the difference in the RX & TX readings & then
> divided by 5 to get the rate.
>
> Which of the following outputs are most up-to-date & accurate :
> ifconfig bond0  (ie issue this command 5 secs apart, get the difference
>                       & divide by 5)
> netstat -i bond0  (ie issue this command 5 secs apart, get the difference
>                       & divide by 5)
>  OR
> cat /proc/net/dev
>
>
> "ethtool -S bond0" on my server gave  "no statistics available".
>
>
> If anyone has a script (Shell or Perl) to share, appreciate if you can
> email it over
>
>
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