ETHSTATUS(1)

📦 version 0.4.9+b1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, meet ethstatus — a console-based ethernet statistics monitor. that's it, that's the vibe. she lives in your terminal and she's watching your ethernet interface. 👀

(this whole page is from the General Commands Manual, section 1, iykyk.)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ethstatus [ -h ] [ -i interface ] [ -v videomode ] [ -S bps[k|m|g] ] [
-s speed ] (backward compatibility)

no cap, that line wrap is doing its own thing. the -s speed bit is the backward compatibility era, we'll get to it. 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

ethstatus is a console-based monitoring utility for displaying statistical data of the ethernet interface on a quantity basis. literally just sit there and watch the numbers do their little dance. main character energy for your NIC. 🦋

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the following options can be provided:

  • -i — specify the ethernet interface which shall be monitored. default is 'eth0'. so if you don't say anything, she's looking at eth0, periodt.
  • -v — set the video mode used by curses. possible choices are 'vga' (the default, iconic) and 'mono' — which is genuinely useful for black-and-white monitors. retro bestie rights. 🖤🤍
  • -S — set the maximum network speed in bits per second. ethstatus knows about the kilo (k), mega (m) and giga (g) modifiers. so you can specify the speed as e.g. 64k or 100m or 1g. obsessed with this one, it's the flexible queen. 👑
  • -s — set the maximum network speed. possible values are '10' (=10 Mbps), ´100' (=100 Mbps), '64' (=64 kbps), '128' (=128 kbps), 256 (=256 kbps), ´768' (=768 kbps) or '1540' (=1540 kbps). this option is provided for backward compatibility to prior versions of ethstatus. please use the -S parameter instead. 🥲
bestie heads up: -h shows up in the SYNOPSIS up there, but the original page never spells out what it does — so i'm not gonna make anything up about it. the facts stay the facts. 💖

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the original program was written by Gabriel Montenegro <johnpetrucci@users.sourceforge.net>. bug fixes, code cleanup, different improvements and this manual page were provided by Christoph Haas <email@christoph-haas.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. slay, honestly. 💐

aaaand that's the whole thing, bestie! this page is from the General Commands Manual — ETHSTATUS(1) — dated May 1, 2003. yeah, 2003. she's vintage, she's timeless, she still ate. 🕰️✨ bye bye, go watch your packets 💜🦋

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