[Iftop-users] Simple text output

Philippe Faure philippe at faure.ca
Sun Nov 22 23:55:01 GMT 2015


Thank you for your suggestion,

Unfortunately, vnstat doesn't have the provision (or at least I  
couldn't find it) to be able to limit the logging to 1 device.  I am  
running iftop on a server and want to monitor 1 device on the network.

Philippe


Quoting Markus Koschany <apo at gambaru.de>:

> Am 22.11.2015 um 15:35 schrieb philippe at faure.ca:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am looking to find a way to record data usage from a specific device
>> on my network. Ideally the out out would be a text file with the total
>> usage. Is there a way to have iftop run in the background and have it
>> update a file.
>>
>> If not, is there another utility that people know about the might be
>> able to help me?
>
> there is also vnstat which logs accumulated traffic even on multiple
> interfaces.
>
> http://humdi.net/vnstat/
>
> Regards,
>
> Markus






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