--- pload.man.orig Tue Feb 1 02:11:24 2000 +++ pload.man Wed Sep 22 16:44:12 2004 @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ .TH PLOAD 1 "" "January 2000" .SH NAME -pload \- display ppp throughput statistics in an X window +pload \- display network interface statistics in an X window .SH SYNOPSIS .ta 6n @@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ [-iformat \fIfmt\fP] [-oformat \fIfmt\fP] .SH DESCRIPTION -The \fBpload\fP program displays information about network interface (ppp) statistics. -Additionally, for Linux 2.2 it can display statistics for any interface that -reports to /proc/net/dev . +The \fBpload\fP program displays network throughput statistics in an X window +Athena stripchart graph. +On FreeBSD, \fBpload\fP can handle any network interface. .SH OPTIONS .PP @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ .TP 8 .B \-iformat \fIfmt\fP Use string \fIfmt\fP for the inbound label. The \fIfmt\fP string will be displayed -literally with the special tags %t %r and %M expanding to the interface total, current +literally with the special tags %d %t %r and %M expanding to the interface name, interface total, current rate, and maximum rate respectively. The default is "%t %r in". .TP 8