Electronics What LCD Software Will Do This ?

Im after a plug-in or software that shows the network traffic on a particular network card.

whether it be Network or LAN. looking for total uploaded and downloaded and maybe connection speed.

Cheers if anyone can point me in the right direction

 

Geeze, I think LCDC and LCD smartie will both do that.

But you just gave me a fiendishly clever idea. How about an LCD that displays MRTG data? Like this graph:

 

yeah LCDC does do it cheers.

 

linear: if you provide me some more info I can probably make an app that does what you want

 

Oooh, cool. The MRTG file format (which is used to build these graphs) is here: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/logfile.html

It's pretty simple. MRTG itself takes care of rolling old data up into longer samples, so the log file doesn't grow without bound. Here's a good description of that process: http://faq.mrtg.org/intro/mrtg.html

Here's the first 25 lines of one of my logs (the rest looks just the same):

See how the timestamps increment by 300 seconds? this is getting poll data every 5 minutes, which is the default for MRTG.

So to sum up, I'd just need the prog to graph the data, autoscaled, with the second and third columns containing the relevant values. First column is a timestamp, so if that could be displayed as human-readable text in some font somewhere, that'd be cool.

 

what LCD you've got linear?

 

I have a couple different MOs. A 2x20 and a 4x20. But I'm guessing this would need to run on a graphic. If I could run this I'd prolly buy a graphic for it.