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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IP accounting only (2.1.5) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:59:44 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <326C70E0.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <3269365A.32D5@sirene.woman.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: "Nora E. Etukudo" <nora@sirene.woman.de> Nora E. Etukudo wrote: > > Hi. > > Want to count the (mega) bytes for one ppp device in both directions. > Have I to fidle with the whole ipfw, ipfirewalling or is there a "cheap" > way ? I want to count only nothin'else (system is 2.1.5). How often do you need to measure? Something like this: netstat -b -I sl0 -d 10 Will give you a running 10-second average. Divide each set of numbers by 10 and that's your Bytes/sec value. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project