From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 12 21:10:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D7416A4D0 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:10:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91.asp.att.net [204.127.203.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7F1F43D58 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:10:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from [10.0.0.10] (12-218-40-24.client.mchsi.com[12.218.40.24]) by sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91) with ESMTP id <20041112211009m9100cebcfe>; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:10:09 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:07:56 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <41952399.7080706@simplenet.com> In-Reply-To: <41952399.7080706@simplenet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411121507.56427.josh@tcbug.org> cc: Tim Traver Subject: Re: Simple Network Traffic script X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:10:19 -0000 On Friday 12 November 2004 20:56, Tim Traver wrote: > Hi all, > > ok, this may be a dumb question, but does anyone know where I can > find a simple script that shows the network traffic to and from > your local box ? > > using netstat -i 5, can see the traffic over 5 seconds, but then I > need to do a bunch of calculations to try and get a reasonable > number. > > I looked at ntop, but couldn't get it to work... > > there must be a simpler way... > > Thanks, > > Tim. Well, there's mrtg in the ports tree, it may or not fit your definition of simple. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel