From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 11:39:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 710201065670 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:39:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@geofront.co.uk) Received: from geofront.co.uk (geofront.co.uk [109.104.93.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35BEC8FC16 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:39:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by geofront.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 33) id 5C481346B8082; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:24:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pc1.idsadsl.ftech.co.uk (pc1.idsadsl.ftech.co.uk [212.32.48.98]) by webmail.geofront.co.uk (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:24:00 +0000 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:24:00 +0000 Message-ID: <20120111112400.Horde.g4QFfgcXel9PDXFQSwJwfrA@webmail.geofront.co.uk> From: Mike Woods To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H4 (5.0.14) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; DelSp=Yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Network throughput X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:39:08 -0000 Hi guys, Been a while since i've had need to post to the list :) I'm trying to gather network throughput information on a box of ours and I'm having a little problem, the throughput is to be measured on a per-minute basis and i've been trying to use netstat for this (count now - count before/timeperiod) however netstats byte counter resets far too quickly to be usefull (this is a busy gb link), i've had a look at vnstat but this only seems to operation on an hour or higher and I need to get down to the minute, does anyone have any suggestions of a tool better suited to this ? ------------------------ Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism