From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JV9AW-0001cL-QQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:37:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80902E06AE; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:37:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ufies.org (ufies.org [65.110.12.162]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F696E06AE for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:37:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ufies.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 617231CCE36; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:37:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:37:09 -0800 From: Alan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth? Message-ID: <20080229173709.GH11222@ufies.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <47C84042.4010301@shic.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47C84042.4010301@shic.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 8217ffc1-5f6c-4b38-88b6-2779a8226935 X-Archives-Hash: a3024d585806df0ab8d33c43d95efe29 On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:26:26PM +0000, Steve wrote: > Situation: There's a LAN with a Netgear ADSL router... heterogenous OS, > including Gentoo, are installed on various PCs on the LAN. > > I'd like to know what communicating IPs are consuming most bandwidth, and > to quantify how much bandwidth they are using... Ideally, I'd like to see a > real-time list of the main bandwidth consuming communicators... > > Has anyone any suggestions? "netstat" is rather more basic than I need... > and "wireshark" is somewhat more substantial than I'd like to get involved > with. Are there any simple solutions? Give iftop a look. -- Alan - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers." -- Unknown -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list