[Lvlug] bandwidth tester

[Mark]

On Monday 03 October 2005 05:32 pm, Faber Fedor wrote:
> Anyone know of a bandwidth measurement tool?
>
> I do NOT want to measure maximum bandwidth; I want to measure what's on
> the wire at the moment.
>
> I want to do something like this: measure the current bandwidth when I'm
> just fetching email and surfing the web.  Then I want to run a remote X
> Desktop and see what my bandwidth usage is like.  Then I want to have
> another computer on the network start a remote X desktop and measure
> again.
>
> MRTG seem like it might do it, but that seems to be alot to install just
> for this small piece of functionality.
>
> Any ideas?

A couple.  You could try a network sniffer (ethereal?) and count the packets 
for specified hosts or you could use ibmonitor. 

-Mark