[PLUG] monitoring MAGNITUDE of internet activity - how?

Richard Owlett rowlett at cloud85.net
Sat Mar 4 08:41:33 UTC 2017


On 03/02/2017 01:48 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 04:33:57PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> 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?
>
> For your purposes, perhaps you pipe a standard interface
> reporting tool into a text file that you can edit into
> .cvs format for a spreadsheet.
>
> However, sometimes the easiest way to do stuff is to learn
> a scripting language and automate a task.  The good thing
> about scripting languages is that you can always look at
> the program to remind yourself how it works.
> [snip]

For my needs I'll skip aiming at a spreadsheet and write some simple 
bash scripts to gather data and do some basic formatting. For anything 
more complex I'll use Tcl/Tk as I use it in another project. The more 
practice the better.

I someone asks "How much can be done in bash?", I suggest browsing
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/Bash-Beginners-Guide.html
and
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html .







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