[PLUG] monitoring MAGNITUDE of internet activity - how?

Richard Owlett rowlett at cloud85.net
Wed Mar 1 23:32:28 UTC 2017


On 03/01/2017 04:44 PM, Robert Citek wrote:
> Would /proc/net/dev give you the info you are looking for?

I don't know.
Will investigate when awake.
Thank you.


>
> $ sudo cat /proc/net/dev
> Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
>  face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed
> multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
>   eth0: 16839226   26454    0    0    0     0          0         0
> 16903410   27268    0    0    0     0       0          0
>   eth1:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0
> 578       7    0    0    0     0       0          0
>     lo:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0
>   0       0    0    0    0     0       0          0
>
> Capture at t0 and t1, parse, diff.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
>> *NOTE BENE*
>> Capitalization in subject line semantically important :>
>>
>> I have significant bandwidth constraints.
>> I have been asked to participate in a project requiring significant data
>> transfers.
>> I wish to run a test case to estimate the connectivity "cost".
>> If it is significant, I use Debian Jessie.
>> For the test case the source/destination is of secondary importance.
>>
>> Is there a tool which can be
>>   "turned on"  at time t0
>>   "turned off" at time t1
>> which will report the number of
>>    "uploaded"   bytes
>>    "downloaded" bytes
>> in that interval?
>>
>> If the tool reports more, no problem -- it will likely be ignored.
>> TIA
>>
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