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What would you like to do?
Simple script to print packet rate for interface
#!/bin/bash
# Interval of calculation in seconds
INTERVAL="1"
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo
echo usage: $0 [network-interface]
echo
echo e.g. $0 eth0
echo
echo shows packets-per-second
exit
fi
IF=$1
while true
do
R1=`cat /sys/class/net/$1/statistics/rx_packets`
T1=`cat /sys/class/net/$1/statistics/tx_packets`
sleep $INTERVAL
R2=`cat /sys/class/net/$1/statistics/rx_packets`
T2=`cat /sys/class/net/$1/statistics/tx_packets`
TXPPS=`expr $T2 - $T1`
RXPPS=`expr $R2 - $R1`
echo -e "TX $TXPPS\tpkts/s RX $RXPPS\tpkts/s"
done
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Nice one! Thank you for sharing!

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