ethstatus – Console-based ethernet statistics monitor
Ethstatus is a console-based monitoring utility for displaying statistical data of the ethernet interface on a quantity basis. It is similar to iptraf but is meant to run as a permanent console task to monitor the network load.
Install ethstatus
#apt-get install ethstatus
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this will complete the installation.If you want to use ethstatus you need to specify the following command
#ethstatus
output looks like below





