Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:30:41 +0000 From: Mike Woods <mike@geofront.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: little things Message-ID: <20120112133041.Horde.pYQUPgcXel9PDuCBIwpF_lA@webmail.geofront.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120112055452.GG91606@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1CF3CC314CC046BA97A680449E25CF28@XXXXXXXPC> <20120112055452.GG91606@dan.emsphone.com>
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Quoting Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>: > As far as network traffic info, ifconfig is used for configuring interfaces, > not monitoring them. The "netstat -ib" command will give you total bytes > sent/received per interface, but the best solution is probably to poll them > with snmp. Having just been looking into this on this very list I can confirm that snmp is the way to go, netstat uses 32bit counters and as a result the counter resets far to often to be of any real use (given that i'm calculating throughput so amount/time), net-snmp can be configured to use 64bit counters and is thus far proving *far* more useful! ------------------------ Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism
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