Ifstat ifstat is a tool to report network interfaces bandwith just like vmstat/iostat do for other system counters. ifstat gathers these statistics from the kernel internal counters, which is highly operating system dependent. Right now, the following systems are supported: Linux >= 2.2.0 (through /proc/net/dev file). FreeBSD >= 2.2 (using the ifmib(4) interface). Solaris >= 5.6 (using the kstat(3