Marian Marinov/HackMan

Recently I wanted to check if I have reached the limit of my network connection. However I constatly had to login on my router and check the traffic on each interface… and I had to watch it continiously.
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So I decided that I’ll write a tool which will collect the information and regulary update a DB, from which I will create graphs… a few minutes later I remembered a good old peace of software called vnstat. I immediatelly installed vnstat on the router and also added jsvnstat for a nice web interface to vnstat.
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However a problem remained… I needed to see the traffic live and constant update of a DB and regeneration of graphs is not a very modern approach. So I decided to see what I can do to see the actual network traffic stats at the moment they are collected.
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This is how Placky was born. Now I can see the live statistics directly from my browser… even on a phone
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If you are interested I have left my home placky interface open to everyone.

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