topic Re: how to measure network speed? in Operating System - Linux

how to measure network speed?

file system — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:21:13 GMT

I want to measure link speed real time
what is the way to get sum of packet per 1 sec

THe output like that below...

root@online # netstat -Ii 1
input i output input (Total) output
packets errs packets errs colls packets errs packets errs colls
0 0 0 0 0 1410037746 175 736909147 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 13738 0 7208 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 17755 0 9213 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 16962 0 8562 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 16575 0 8353 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 16360

0 8231 0 0

I want to tip for measuring link or network speed in linux box

Re: how to measure network speed?

Muthukumar_5 — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:53:16 GMT

you can get informations as,

# netstat -ivn

what do you require from that input? Post with details more.

-Muthu

Re: how to measure network speed?

Matthew Ausmus — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:44:30 GMT

Have you tried iptraf? This should give you the info you need in real time. If you don't have it and are running any form of RH (i.e. Fedora, RHEL & any of the white box derivatives) then you can install it using yum.