ifconfig script for monitoring eth0

[phriday613]

ok.. what exactically is involved/needed from eth0 to plot bytes in/out?

it looks like ifconfig accumulates the TX and RX bytes, so how can i use ifconfig to make a script that can output what is needed like everyone elses "Traffic Analysis"

I cant get SNMP to work, so until then, i have to use perl and shell scripts

Thanks!

[yid]

What OS(s)? If you're using Sun you can use kstat, on *BSD/Linux I would parse netstat output.

[phriday613]

linux.. i dont know exactically what gets parsed from netstat? and why netstat??

should it come from ifconfig?

ifconfig -a | grep "TX"

right??