Improve network module to include Bandwidth (I/O speeds)

[adewinter]

Improve network module to include Bandwidth (I/O speeds)

[adewinter]

I neglected to mark this as a feature request. Sorry!

[MarioRicalde]

Would love to see this, it's definitely needed, +1

[tariqbuilds]

This should be relatively straight forward. What command(s) should we rely on? In other words, which linux command(s) do you usually run to get that info (if you do)?

I'd like to avoid trial-and-error of commands and the consequential series of commits which litter the main branch.

[koehn]

This works (bash, but easily convertible to php):

#!/bin/bash

oldrx=`cat /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/rx_bytes`
oldtx=`cat /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/tx_bytes`

sleep 4

newrx=`cat /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/rx_bytes`
newtx=`cat /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/tx_bytes`

echo "tx rate: " $(( $(( newtx - oldtx )) / 4 ))
echo "rx rate: " $(( $(( newrx - oldrx )) / 4 ))

[tariqbuilds]

The most recent commit added a bandwidth widget which replicates @koehn 's script.

Disclaimer: this feature was just added with limited testing / improvements. That will follow.