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bitJericho
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Posted: 4th Dec 2007 02:33
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Hey all,

I'm curious as to the bandwidth throughput my linux server has. Is there a tool or something that I can test it with? I can only access the server via ssh (or web based programs, of course).


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Zappo
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Posted: 4th Dec 2007 11:15
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Ideally you would use SNMP for this kind of thing. A combination of SNMP and the excellent MRTG graphing system can create some nice traffic graphs for you but its not a quick or simple thing to set up.

'ifconfig' will give you a received (RX) byte count and transmitted (TX) byte count for each network interface since the machine was booted. If you run it every 5 minutes (or whatever) you can work out how much traffic has gone through in that time, or have a Perl script run from the CRON to grab that info and log it.


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