Etherape is a great tool for this! Agim Cami -----Original Message----- From: linux-net-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-net-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Oliver Hookins Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 3:00 AM To: sting Cc: linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [NEWSENDER] - Re: graphical bandwidth monitoring tool - Message is from an unknown sender On Sun Apr 26, 2009 at 06:23:26 -0400, sting wrote: >Hello, > >I am looking for a real-time graphical bandwidth plotting utility that >will run on Linux and X Window, although it doesn't matter if it uses a >widget API (gtk, etc) as long as I can still export the display to an X >Server such as Cygwin or Xming. Since I need to export the display, the >app can't take the form of a control panel in a desktop environment >(kde/gnome/etc) or something like that. > >I haven't been able to find one so far. > >My needs are really simple. I just want to see a real-time graph of the >bandwidth usage (Tx/Rx) on a single interface. I need the graph to >capture the last fews seconds/minutes/hours of activity, which means all >the console applications that just display the current usage snapshot >(iftop, bwm-ng, etc) won't do. If it is able to recognize bandwidth usage >for a specific IP-to-IP conversation and have one plotline per >conversation, even better. > >I've searched around a fair amount. Most applications I found are either >console based or web-server based. The console based ones usually only >offer a current snapshot (no history) and the web ones aren't real-time, >typically generating data that later gets compiled into a report. I've >also tried etherape thinking it might do this, but it doesn't. bmon is >the closest, but is text display. > >I've examined the applications on the following pages to not avail: > http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html#public > http://www.ubuntugeek.com/bandwidth-monitoring-tools-for-linux.html > http://www.ubuntugeek.com/bandwidth-monitoring-tools-for-ubuntu-users.html > >I hope I'm missing something! Would appreciate any pointers to existing >apps. I might write one if there really isn't anything, but I just find >it hard to believe. > >Thank you. > >P.S: wasn't if this question is meant for a list such as linux-net, but >there must be several users of the various applications I've mentionned >and perhaps someone has had the same need Hi Sting, this is a subject I've pondered for a while as well but sadly other projects have come before it and postponed any serious work I was going to do on it. I did find one tool which appeared to do the job but I haven't investigated it thoroughly - http://etherape.sourceforge.net/ - if you are able to play around with it and keep me personally in the loop with your findings I'd be very grateful as I'm looking for a solution to this same problem myself. -- Regards, Oliver Hookins Anchor Systems -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
