Track my bandwith usage?

[linuxisevolution]

I am scared that I might be using more than what comcast wants me too. I setup apachetop on my server and saw that today it reached 22gb. Yikes. And that is mainly just because of my new distribution I'm working on(the iso of course).

Is there an app that can track this? My router tells me in real time but does not keep track.

Thanks!

[Dr Small]

ifconfig ath0 | grep bytes
Of course, that is nothing sophisticated, but it works. If you have something better, let me know. :)

Also, for "live" tracking of it:

#!/bin/bash

#PLEASE CHANGE THIS
#Interface:
interface="ath0"


#BEGIN
download=`ifconfig $interface | grep bytes | awk '/RX/ {print $2}' | sed 's/bytes://'`
start=$(($download / 1048576))
startkb=$(($download / 1024))
time=`date +%s`


while true;do clear;
download2=`ifconfig $interface | grep bytes | awk '/RX/ {print $2}' | sed 's/bytes://'`
start2=$(($download2 / 1048576))
startkb2=$(($download2 / 1024))
current=$(($start2 - $start))
currentkb=$(($startkb2 - $startkb))
currentbytes=$(($download2 - $download))
time2=`date +%s`
totaltime=$(($time2 - $time))
timeminutes=$(($totaltime / 60))
timehours=$((timeminutes / 60))

echo "Current Download Usage:"
echo
echo $current MBs
echo $currentkb KBs
echo $currentbytes Bytes
echo
echo
echo "Elapsed Time:"
echo
echo $timehours hours
echo $timeminutes minutes
echo $totaltime seconds
echo

sleep 1;

done
You can run that in screen and watch it over a period of time :)

[Mehall]

You can get Conky to show it too!

[linuxisevolution]

I'm not sure that the first option is accurate...


debian:~# ifconfig eth0 | grep bytes
RX bytes:2114087871 (1.9 GiB) TX bytes:367833192 (350.7 MiB)



Or is apachetop wrong?

[linuxisevolution]

You can get Conky to show it too!

The server is headless. ;)

[linuxisevolution]

ifconfig ath0 | grep bytes
Of course, that is nothing sophisticated, but it works. If you have something better, let me know. :)

Also, for "live" tracking of it:

#!/bin/bash

#PLEASE CHANGE THIS
#Interface:
interface="ath0"


#BEGIN
download=`ifconfig $interface | grep bytes | awk '/RX/ {print $2}' | sed 's/bytes://'`
start=$(($download / 1048576))
startkb=$(($download / 1024))
time=`date +%s`


while true;do clear;
download2=`ifconfig $interface | grep bytes | awk '/RX/ {print $2}' | sed 's/bytes://'`
start2=$(($download2 / 1048576))
startkb2=$(($download2 / 1024))
current=$(($start2 - $start))
currentkb=$(($startkb2 - $startkb))
currentbytes=$(($download2 - $download))
time2=`date +%s`
totaltime=$(($time2 - $time))
timeminutes=$(($totaltime / 60))
timehours=$((timeminutes / 60))

echo "Current Download Usage:"
echo
echo $current MBs
echo $currentkb KBs
echo $currentbytes Bytes
echo
echo
echo "Elapsed Time:"
echo
echo $timehours hours
echo $timeminutes minutes
echo $totaltime seconds
echo

sleep 1;

done
You can run that in screen and watch it over a period of time :)

Thanks! That code is working, but since I am using it over ssh every time it reloads it adds the bandwith that it itself is using, making the reading inaccurate. Is there a way to fix that?

[Mehall]

The server is headless. ;)

run it windowed via x11 forwarding? idk =[

[linuxisevolution]

run it windowed via x11 forwarding? idk =[

That would take to much resources. It only has a 550mhz cpu and 256mb ram. Using 33mb ram now though.

Conky is just a huge bash script to me.

[Mehall]

That would take to much resources. It only has a 550mhz cpu and 256mb ram. Using 33mb ram now though.

Conky is just a huge bash script to me.

To clear things up, I wasn't honestly suggesting x11-ing Conky, lol.

I like Conky on my desktop, and install it whenever I'm using a GUI (okay, I use Crunchbang, so it comes pre-installed :P) but yah, erm.... I have no idea, lol.

you could always do a wget of the routers stats and store it in a file somewhere.

EDIT: again, daft idea and impractical.

[smartboyathome]

If you are behind a WRT router, there is always DD-WRT. It will track all your bandwidth usage for you.

[linuxisevolution]

To clear things up, I wasn't honestly suggesting x11-ing Conky, lol.

I like Conky on my desktop, and install it whenever I'm using a GUI (okay, I use Crunchbang, so it comes pre-installed :P) but yah, erm.... I have no idea, lol.

you could always do a wget of the routers stats and store it in a file somewhere.

EDIT: again, daft idea and impractical.

Actually the wget idea is very practical. Thanks for the idea.

But now heres my problem:

I have added my RX and TX data and I find that just me and my server have send around 4gb of data and received 3gb -since they haven't been turned off.

The problem is if I run the ifconfig $interface | grep bytes command on each interface that ifconfig shows on the router none of the interfaces seem to show the total :(

Should br0, br0:0, eth0, eth1, vlan0, and vlan1 all be added together, or am I missing something?

[linuxisevolution]

If you are behind a WRT router, there is always DD-WRT. It will track all your bandwidth usage for you.

I am using dd-wrt. I don't know how to view total bandwith usage with it though.

[smartboyathome]

I am using dd-wrt. I don't know how to view total bandwith usage with it though.

Sorry for the late reply. To view the total bandwidth usage, go to 192.168.1.1, and then browse to Status > WAN.