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Sourav
Asked: 2011-07-03 02:10:19 +0800 CST

Monitor network status on Ubuntu 11.04

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How to monitor bytes received/sent in a network session in Ubuntu ?
I'm very new to ubuntu, so dont give links which requires to compile files or so...

11.04

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  1. Best Answer

    open system-monitor. got to Resources tab. here you can see network, processor, memory uses status. install the following applet witch show status on gnome-panel

    https://launchpadlibrarian.net/72652905/indicator-multiload_0.1.orig.tar.gz

    install: first cd to folder after extract file

    sudo make
sudo make install
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  2. To do this from Unity you can use the system monitor as in the following:

    1. Press Super (the Windows key).
    2. Type monitor and press System monitor.
    3. In the system monitor go to the tab Resources.
    4. At the bottom you'll find a graph and numbers on recieved and sent bytes.
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