Network monitoring question

[Guest_imported]

Is there a command or tool to monitor the speed of the network? I have been doing backups of a server and it seems to be taking way too long so I was thinking it would be nice to be able to monitor how fast the information was getting there to determine where the bottleneck might be.

 

[Guest_imported]

I know about netstat but are there any others that are more user friendly?

 

[NavinB]

Hi,
U can use these commands to see the n/w speed of hme interface:
ndd -get /dev/hme link_mode(0=Half-duplex,1=full-duplex)
ndd -get /dev/hme link_speed(0=10Mbps,1=100Mbps)
u can force your system to have 100Mbps full duplex with these commands:
ndd -set /dev/hme instance 0
ndd -set /dev/hme adv_100fdx_cap 1
ndd -set /dev/hme adv_100hdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/hme adv_10fdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/hme adv_10hdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/hme adv_autoneg_cap 0

I hope this helps.....

 

[Guest_imported]

I was actually hoping to find a command like the netstat -i 3 except easier to interpret. Something that would record how much data is coming in and going out over a set period of time.