Reading bandwidth from ethernet NIC

Cambora

I have no idea if you can get the current upload/download traffic from a NIC with php, but if this can be done I would like to know how. I want to read the info on the server's NIC called WAN.

I've spent a few hours now looking for an answer, but found nothing. I hope someone in here can help me!!

/Cambora

tsinka

Hi,

I tried this script:

http://ftp.linuxchannel.net/devel/php_bandwidth/

Seems to work (on Linux).

Thomas

Cambora

I should have written that I need it on a windows 2000 machine

tsinka

Hi,

you can use the command

netstat -e on windows to get packet statistics which will return some lines of output. One line contains the data received and sent in bytes.

Write a script that executes netstat -e (shell_exec) two times, fetch the outpot each time and calculate the difference of the sent bytes.

After that you should have the used bandwidth in bytes.
You might need to measure the time between the two system calls using microtime and do another calculation to get the bandwidth in e.g. MB/s.

Since php 4.0.5 microtime should return correct values when used on Windows servers.

Thomas

Cambora

That should work, I however don't really now how to do this... I'm kinda new to php yet, anyone got an idea of how the code calling nestat 2 times, then fetch the output and compare them?