NAME

       ethstats — quickly display statistics of network interfaces

SYNOPSIS

       ethstats [-t] [-C | -M] [-c count] [-i iface] [-n period]
       ethstats [-V | -h]

DESCRIPTION

       The ethstats utility is a quick way to display network interface statistics.  It periodically samples the
       byte  and  packet  counters exported by the Linux kernel into the /proc/net/dev pseudo-file and outputs a
       line for each network interface on the system (except for the loopback) and  a  totals  line.   The  data
       shown is the input and output rate in megabits per second and packets per second.

       The ethstats utility accepts the following command-line options:

       -C      Highlight (color) the totals line in the output.

       -c      Exit after the specified number of samples.

       -h      Display program usage information and exit.

       -i      Specify a single network interface to monitor.

       -M      Do not highlight (monochrome) the totals line in the output.

       -n      Specify the polling interval in seconds (default: 10).

       -t      Prefix the totals line with the Unix timestamp.

       -V      Display program version information and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

       The operation of the ethstats utility is not directly influenced by any environment variables.

FILES

       The operation of the ethstats utility is not directly influenced by the contents of any files.

EXAMPLES

       Continuously poll the system network interfaces on five-second intervals:

             ethstats -n 5

       Take four samples of the transfer rate of the wlan0 interface, ten seconds apart:

             ethstats -c 4 -n 10 -i wlan0

DIAGNOSTICS

       The ethstats utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

       netstat(8)

STANDARDS

       No standards were harmed during the production of the ethstats utility.

HISTORY

       This  application  was  released  from  an unknown source via Drew Strieb.  It is now maintained by Peter
       Pentchev.

       A manual page was originally written by Scott Dier for the Debian project  and  then  reworked  by  Peter
       Pentchev.

AUTHORS

       Peter Pentchev ⟨roam@ringlet.net⟩
       M. Drew Streib ⟨dtype@dtype.org⟩
       Scott Dier ⟨sdier@debian.org⟩

BUGS

       No, thank you :) But if you should actually find any, please report them to the author.

Debian                                          December 11, 2015                                    ETHSTATS(1)