{"id":10,"date":"2006-03-18T00:59:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T00:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2006\/03\/18\/neat-tool-bwm-ng\/"},"modified":"2010-11-11T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T13:02:09","slug":"neat-tool-bwm-ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2006\/03\/18\/neat-tool-bwm-ng\/","title":{"rendered":"Neat tool: bwm-ng"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently found a neat little tool whilst looking for applications that\u00c2\u00a0link against\u00c2\u00a0libstatgrab<\/a>. It’s called bwm-ng and is written by a guy called Volker Gropp<\/a>. The tool itself isn’t anything revolutionary (it’s\u00c2\u00a0influenced by the original bwm tool), it’s just a handy way of displaying current bandwidth usage across multiple interfaces.<\/p>\n

\"bwm-ng<\/div>\n

This screenshot shows\u00c2\u00a0bwm-ng in action\u00c2\u00a0on my FreeBSD router.<\/p>\n

It has a bunch of input methods to make it more portable, including libstatgrab<\/a> which in theory<\/em> might make it work on Windows. The default output method is the curses interface as shown in the above screenshot, but it’ll also do\u00c2\u00a0various textual formats\u00c2\u00a0including HTML.<\/p>\n

The bwm-ng website<\/a> gives links to a whole bunch of pre-packaged builds for various Linux distributions, and I’ve recently added<\/a> it to the FreeBSD ports collection. Building from source is trivial too.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’m always on the lookout for handy little tools like this that just give you the raw facts in a simple and easily digested format. And it’s even better when they make use of libstatgrab \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently found a neat little tool whilst looking for applications that\u00c2\u00a0link against\u00c2\u00a0libstatgrab. It’s called bwm-ng and is written by a guy called Volker Gropp. The tool itself isn’t anything revolutionary (it’s\u00c2\u00a0influenced by the original bwm tool), it’s just a handy way of displaying current bandwidth usage across multiple interfaces. This screenshot shows\u00c2\u00a0bwm-ng in action\u00c2\u00a0on my FreeBSD router. It has …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t