Zulfan & Ruri

This is a very tiny bandwidth monitor (not X11). Can monitor up to 16 interfaces in the in the same time, and shows totals too.

Installing BWM

#apt-get install bwm
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
bwm
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 7896B of archives.
After unpacking 41.0kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 ftp://kambing.ui.edu stable/main bwm 1.1.0-8.1 [7896B]
Fetched 7896B in 1s (4237B/s)
Selecting previously deselected package bwm.
(Reading database … 39669 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bwm (from …/bwm_1.1.0-8.1_i386.deb) …
Setting up bwm (1.1.0-8.1) …

This will complete the installation and if you want to see your network interfaces run the following command

#bwm
Output looks like below
Bandwidth Monitor 1.1.0

Iface        RX(KB/sec)   TX(KB/sec)   Total(KB/sec)

lo            0.000        0.000           0.000
eth0            0.996        0.996           1.992
sit0            0.000        0.000           0.000

Total            0.996        0.996           1.992

Hit CTRL-C to end this madness.