[aclug-L] Re: Internet connection speed

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 1:45 PM
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> Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Internet connection speed
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> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Jeff wrote:
> 
> > > > /usr/sbin/pppstats
> 
> >        The following fields are printed on the input side when the
> >        -z option is not used:
> > ...
> >        IN     The total number of bytes received by this interface.
> 
> > ...
> >        The following fields are printed on the output side:
> >        OUT    The total number of bytes transmitted from this interface.
> 
> I forgot to mention a /useful/ feature of pppstats: when run in
> continuous mode, it reports the incremental bytes/packets each
> interval, which is where you can figure your real-time connection
> speed (assuming you're loading it).

But this only works on PPP and isn't particularly user friendly.  I'd much
prefer to use a monitor that can display the traffic - not just the number
of bytes but the throughput - in near real time.  pppstats looks to be 
designed mostly for figuring out what type of compression you are getting
on your ppp link.  If I just want raw numbers, I could poll ifconfig at
regular intervals and do the math.

--dwh

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