checking bandwidth usage in linux

[BobOmega]

is there some easy command line way to check the bandwidth that is in use and or the total since start up?

i'm currious to see what my webserver uses at a given point.

its running slackware 9.1 if that helps.

[jkrohn]

ifconfig will show you the total transmit and received bytes on each interface.

Jkrohn

[Siliconjunkie]

You can use mrtg or ifmonitor, google for them. ifmonitor requires a sql database, mrtg is a bit of a pain.

There is also IP Accounting in the 2.4 kernel I believe.

[SpookyEddy]

You can also use Bandwidth Monitor (bwm) to give you a rough idea of realtime bandwidth usage, something like this....

Bandwidth Monitor 1.1.0

       Iface        RX(KB/sec)   TX(KB/sec)   Total(KB/sec)

       teql0            0.000        0.000           0.000
          lo            0.000        0.000           0.000
      dummy0            0.000        0.000           0.000
        eth0            0.098        0.000           0.098
       teql1            0.000        0.000           0.000
        eth1            0.000        0.000           0.000

       Total            0.098        0.000           0.098

Hit CTRL-C to end this madness.

Regards

ed