{"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":"<p>I recently found a neat little tool whilst looking for applications that\u00c2\u00a0link against\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-scream.org\/libstatgrab\/\">libstatgrab<\/a>. It&#8217;s called bwm-ng and is written by a guy called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gropp.org\/\">Volker Gropp<\/a>. The tool itself isn&#8217;t anything revolutionary (it&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0influenced by the original bwm tool), it&#8217;s just a handy way of displaying current bandwidth usage across multiple interfaces.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image9\" alt=\"bwm-ng screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/bwm-ng.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This screenshot shows\u00c2\u00a0bwm-ng in action\u00c2\u00a0on my FreeBSD router.<\/p>\n<p>It has a bunch of input methods to make it more portable, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-scream.org\/libstatgrab\/\">libstatgrab<\/a> which <em>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&#8217;ll also do\u00c2\u00a0various textual formats\u00c2\u00a0including HTML.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gropp.org\/\">bwm-ng website<\/a> gives links to a whole bunch of pre-packaged builds for various Linux distributions, and I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshports.org\/net-mgmt\/bwm-ng\/\">recently added<\/a> it to the FreeBSD ports collection. Building from source is trivial too.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;s even better when they make use of libstatgrab \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently found a neat little tool whilst looking for applications that\u00c2\u00a0link against\u00c2\u00a0libstatgrab. It&#8217;s called bwm-ng and is written by a guy called Volker Gropp. The tool itself isn&#8217;t anything revolutionary (it&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0influenced by the original bwm tool), it&#8217;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 &hellip;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}