"vnstat" under OS X

1 Looked at your last item "MAC Wi-Fi' Diagnostics and indeed, my Mavericks has it. However it is not exactly (understatement) that which I am use to with "vnstat" (from earlier experiences with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). WiFi Diagnostics also seems to assume US equipment (e.g. Router) and there was no obvious way to define my SpeedPort. In any case, I'm really looking for something simple which just shows daily up- and down-traffic irrespective of whether it is thru WLAN or cable.

2 I will further research with your second item (BSD) as in looking for my WiFi Diagnostics, I came across "vnstat" in my files that I had not placed there!

3 I'll look at your first item but curiosity is telling me to go for the Bash stuff in item # 2.

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Answer 3

Jan 19, 2014 3:10 PM in response to bensberg

I've installed vnstat under macports. (See http://www.macports.org )

Having done so, I'm not sure what it returns bears any relation to the actual traffic!

Database updated: Mon Jan 20 10:01:09 2014

en1 since 12/31/13

rx: 17.42 GiB tx: 59.13 GiB total: 76.55 GiB

monthly

rx | tx | total | avg. rate

------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------

Jan '14 14.79 GiB | 54.21 GiB | 69.00 GiB | 345.03 kbit/s

------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------

estimated 23.61 GiB | 86.55 GiB | 110.16 GiB |

daily

rx | tx | total | avg. rate

------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------

yesterday 6.82 GiB | 27.24 GiB | 34.06 GiB | 3.31 Mbit/s

today 2.13 GiB | 2.91 GiB | 5.04 GiB | 1.17 Mbit/s

------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------

estimated 5.10 GiB | 6.97 GiB | 12.08 GiB |

Sorry that looks a bit haphazard, but you get the idea... ther's no way I've sent/recd 5.04GiB today!!!!!

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Answer 4

bensberg Author

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Jan 20, 2014 12:41 AM in response to JohnHall1948

Not sure I can help but it does look as though "vnstat" is picking up the wrong data.

I have found the Terminal command line "top" command and have been trying to work out how could I collect the information given under "Networks". Now I wonder whether you could use "top" to maybe cross-check that data which you're receiving from "vnstat".

Out of curiosity, did you install the binary or did you work with the source code?

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Answer 5

Jan 20, 2014 3:57 AM in response to bensberg

Sorry, I am not familiar with using "top" for collecting Network info.

"darkstat" also appears to collate weird data volumes on OSX (Mavericks).

Macports builds the source for Mac OSX.

Enjoy!

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