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If for some reasons you want to visualize your bandwidth traffic on an
interface (in or out) in a terminal with a nice graph, here is a small script
to do so, involving **ttyplot**, a nice software making graphics in a terminal.
The following will works on OpenBSD.
You can install ttyplot by `pkg_add ttyplot` as root, ttyplot package appeared
since OpenBSD 6.5.
For Linux, the [ttyplot official website](https://github.com/tenox7/ttyplot)
contains tons of examples.
Output example while updating my packages:
IN Bandwidth in KB/s
↑ 1499.2 KB/s#
│ #
│ #
│ #
│ ##
│ ##
│ 1124.4 KB/s##
│ ##
│ ##
│ ##
│ ##
│ ##
│ 749.6 KB/s ##
│ ##
│ ##
│ ## #
│ ## # # # # ##
│ ## # ### # ## # # # ## ## # # ##
│ 374.8 KB/s ## ## #### # # ## # # ### ## ## ### # ## ### # # # # ## # ##
│ ## ### ##### ########## ############# ### # ## ### ##### #### ## ## ###### ## ##
│ ## ### ##### ########## ############# ### #### ### ##### #### ## ## ## ###### ## ###
│ ## ### ##### ########## ############## ### #### ### ##### #### ## ## ######### ## ####
│ ## ### ##### ############################## ######### ##### #### ## ## ############ ####
│ ## ### #################################################### #### ## #####################
│ ## ### #################################################### #############################
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────→
# last=422.0 min=1.3 max=1499.2 avg=352.8 KB/s Fri Jul 19 08:30:25 2019
github.com/tenox7/ttyplot 1.4
In the following command, we will use **trunk0** with INBOUND traffic as the
interface to monitor.
At the end of the article, there is a command for displaying both in and out at
the same time, and also instructions for customizing to your need.
the end of the article you can find a shorter and more efficient version,
removing most of the awk code.
You can copy/paste this command in your OpenBSD system shell, this will produce
a graph of trunk0 inbound traffic.
{ while :; do netstat -i -b -n ; sleep 1 ; done } | awk 'BEGIN{old=-1} /^trunk0/ { if(!index($4,":") && old>=0) { print ($5-old)/1024 ; fflush ; old = $5 } if(old==-1) { old=$5 } }' | ttyplot -t "IN Bandwidth in KB/s" -u "KB/s" -c "#"
The script will do an infinite loop doing `netstat -ibn` every second and
sending that output to awk.
You can quit it with **Ctrl+C**.
Netstat output contains total bytes (in or out) since system has started so awk
needs to remember last value and will display the difference between two
output, avoiding first value because it would make a huge spike (aka the total
network transfered since boot time).
If I decompose the awk script, this is a lot more readable.
Awk is very readable if you take care to format it properly as any source code!
#!/bin/sh
{ while :;
do
netstat -i -b -n
sleep 1
done
} | awk '
BEGIN {
old=-1
}
/^trunk0/ {
if(!index($4,":") && old>=0) {
print ($5-old)/1024
fflush
old = $5
}
if(old==-1) {
old = $5
}
}' | ttyplot -t "IN Bandwidth in KB/s" -u "KB/s" -c "#"
+ replace **trunk0** by your interface name
+ replace both instances of **$5** by **$6** for **OUT** traffic
+ replace **/1024** by **/1048576** for MB/s values
+ remove **/1024** for B/s values
+ replace 1 in **sleep 1** by another value if you want to have the value every
n seconds
Thanks to leot on IRC, netstat can be used in a lot more efficient way and remove all the awk parsing!
ttyplot supports having two graphs at the same time, one being in opposite color.
netstat -b -w 1 -I trunk0 | awk 'NR>3 { print $1/1024; print $2/1024; fflush }' | ttyplot -2 -t "IN/OUT Bandwidth in KB/s" -u "KB/s" -c "#"