simple network traffic query tool

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Thursday, April 24, 2008 20:10:40 +0200 Tobias Kirschstein <lev at nupfel.de> 
wrote:

> hi,
>
> i'm looking for a small tool to query the current network traffic (kb
> IN and OUT) per interface. is there any sysctl or tool which gives me a
> similar output to "systat -ifstat":
>
>                     /0   /1   /2   /3   /4   /5   /6   /7   /8   /9   /10
>      Load Average   ||||
>
>       Interface           Traffic               Peak                Total
>             lo0  in      0.000 KB/s          0.000 KB/s          226.079 KB
>                  out     0.000 KB/s          0.000 KB/s          226.079 KB
>
>            wpi0  in      0.000 KB/s          0.000 KB/s          164.577 MB
>                  out     0.000 KB/s          0.000 KB/s            6.205 MB
>
> the background:
> unfortunately the network monitor build into superkaramba does not work
> for freebsd, os i want to write a widget which uses sysctl or any other
> tool if available got get this information. systat is not appropriate
> to be used because it does not terminate on its own as i see.

Perhaps net/ntop?

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/