Scriptable net speed measuring tool

[thewanderer]

Hi,
There are many network speed monitors out there. However, all of them seem to run in interactive mode, thus being useless when it comes to scripting.
What I'd like to present today is a program that measures the speed of chosen network interface and reports it in a simple manner.
http://thewanderer.dyndns.org/download/ethspeed.tar.bz2 (source code + binaries for i386 and amd64)
The program runs for time specified in its argument list, by default 1 second (call it with no arguments for some help on usage). Then, it reports the results in a form similar to:

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start=1.05992M end=1.37779M delta=325.492K avg=65.0977K

As it just sleeps while waiting for the second data read, you can just:

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while true; do ./ethspeed.i386 >stats; done;

It will provide you with self-updating stats file that you can use for any purpose (your own system monitor, web stats display etc.).
Note: I'm too lazy to provide any license notes for the program - you may assume it's GPL'd.

[DT-Andrew]

The link

http://thewanderer.dyndns.org/download/ethspeed.tar.bz2

is not currently working. I don't know if this is just something on my end or not but I thought you would like to know.

[Wolven]

The link

http://thewanderer.dyndns.org/download/ethspeed.tar.bz2

is not currently working. I don't know if this is just something on my end or not but I thought you would like to know.

The link is not working here either.

[thewanderer]

Bah. There goes my lair cleaning!
Thanks for pointing out the lack of my file. It seems to have been eaten in the midway when upgrading my server. Online again from now on