Does anyone have a working network-speed configuration for mac?

[dhaley]

I am tying on OS X with this config https://gist.github.com/dhaley/5373450.

Here is the output of my ifconfig command for both my wireless and wired devices.

https://gist.github.com/dhaley/5373463

What do I need to change in my network-speed-format-string to see my speed?

Perhaps this could be included in the doco for Mac folks.

Thanks.

[agpchil]

I'm not a mac user but I think the %RX, %TX and %AX formats in your network-speed-format-string should display the speed (RX for received, TX for transmitted and AX for RX+TX). It's not working? Can you provide more info like what values are displayed in your mode-line? Any error message during start or after eval network-speed?

[dhaley]

@agpchil

After further digging, it appears OS X has no /proc/net/dev

So it makes sense with this network-speed-format-string:

%NI#%RB#%TB#%RX#%TX#%AX

I see the following values:

Interface: en1
Received bytes: 0 B
Transmitted bytes: 0 B
Download speed: *
Upload speed: *

I'll try to see if there is an OS equivalent for /proc/net/dev. So far the closest I can find this this command:

/usr/sbin/netstat -bi | grep en1, which provides this output:

en1 1500 <Link#5> 00:00:00:00:00:00 13112 0 1891446 617 0 90890 0
en1 1500 host.local fe00:0::0ed0:c0ff 13112 - 1891446 617 - 90890 -
en1 1500 10.0.0/22 rl1-2-198-247-d 13112 - 1891446 617 - 90890 -

Let me know if anyone reports a solution.

[agpchil]

Yes. That's the problem. /proc/net/dev is used to fetch the stats...

@Idorobots has a TODO entry to redo the network stats. It would be great if it can be done with OSX compatibility.

I'm currently trying to write a mode to easier the use and config of mode-line-stats.
If no one have solved this when I finish I'll give a try.

[agpchil]

@dhaley any updates on this issue?