| nload 0.3.0 (2001-09-25) |
| real time monitor for network traffic |
| Copyright (C) 2001 by Roland Riegel <support@roland-riegel.de> |
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| 1. Introduction |
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| This is version 0.3.0 of nload, a console application which monitors network |
| traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. |
| It visualizes the in- and outgoing traffic using two graphs and provides |
| additionally info like total amount of transfered data |
| and min/max network usage. |
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| 2. Installing / Compiling nload |
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| Compiling is done by running |
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| ./configure |
| make |
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| in the directory where this README is. |
| To install nload, you have to be root: |
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| su |
| make install |
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| You can find more detailed information in the file INSTALL in this directory. |
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| 3. Using nload |
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| To learn about the command line switches of nload, simply run: |
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| nload --help |
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| When running nload, you can switch between the devices (which you gave nload |
| on the command line) by pressing the left and right arrow keys. |
| If you want to quit, do so by pressing 'q', 'Q' or Ctrl+C. |
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| PLEASE NOTE: |
| Specifying refresh intervals shorter than about 200 milliseconds makes traffic |
| calculation very unprecise. Also the display may flicker using such short |
| refresh intervals. |
| nload tries to balance this out by doing extra time measurements, but this may |
| not always succeed. |
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| 4. Uninstalling nload |
| ------------------ |
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| If you want to uninstall nload (I hope you never don't want to ;-), run: |
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| make uninstall |
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| in the build directory. |
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| 5. Copyright / License |
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| Copyright (C) 2001 by Roland Riegel <support@roland-riegel.de> |
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| This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
| the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
| (at your option) any later version. |
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| This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
| GNU General Public License for more details. |
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| You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
| along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
| Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. |
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