Subject: Re: Idle time on network interface... Can we tell?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@anarres.mame.mu.oz.au>
List: current-users
Date: 12/03/1995 22:33:19 
> Is there a way to determine whether an interface is idle?  Some of our
> users occasionally line camp.  Unfortunately, since the tty is idle during
> an entire PPP or SLIP session, we can't just check for idle time.  :(

One slightly hacky way would be to watch the counters in "netstat -i"
over time..

--
Dan.