From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GB4C9-0002tf-1Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:39:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7A6XCHx000535; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:33:12 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7A6TcEo025666 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:29:38 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so389201wxc for ; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:29:38 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Rg28OBj8HWhSFbW77tsNruYvkdV+LZQK+hxFWfJ4/6yH2Nivv8kt79Y8c/3Vi6EZpSlnFXMAjIMXX3wIkej1sTFW+VYAZ2OLqz+eV8VyGhj+RgGAlcgSg0VLsl6nO7e+qJHLR9cwSMQOoats6cRHGUrcou3yRCvV30MSdf+i888= Received: by 10.70.103.12 with SMTP id a12mr2683809wxc; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:29:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.102? ( [63.207.177.13]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i18sm1145860wxd.2006.08.09.23.29.36; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:29:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44DAD24F.7040806@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:29:35 -0700 From: gentuxx User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060802) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity? References: <20060809171542.GA6147@asterius> <44DABCA3.10402@smash-net.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8c54a6e6-e9ba-4819-b0f9-b84fb41a2ee1 X-Archives-Hash: 51a145c68e2112cce0216464b91065b4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 michael@michaelshiloh.com wrote: > this has been a fascinating conversation. thanks boris for starting it. > i've tested almost everything that has been mentioned. > > i often have to monitor my computers over slow text-only ssh > sessions, so my > focus may be a bit different from others. > > tcpdump (and ethereal/wireshark) of course can not be beat for > looking inside > packets. > > to see what connections are open and how much data they are > transferring, in a > telnet/ssh situation i like bmon and iftop. i especially appreciate the > "graphical" feature of bmon. > > in real graphical environments, i like etherape. > > thanks to everyone who has contributed so much wisdom > > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Norman Rie? wrote: > >> Boris Sobolev schrieb: >>> Hi folks, >>> I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. >>> Any command to use for that? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Boris >>> >>> >> iftop >> is nice to watch, what connetions are currently open an how many >> traffic they produce. >> -- >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> >> For the graphically challenged, or the CLI initiated, try bwm-ng. I initially came across it because of its mention on Richard Bejtlich's blog. And fortunately there was an ebuild for it in portage! But it's a pretty cool tool, nonetheless. I too have tried a few of the different tools mentioned. I have loved etherape for quite some time (years). Good to know that there's an ebuild for it! I had almost forgotten all about it until Michael mentioned it. - -- gentux echo "hfouvyyAhnbjm/dpn" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 5495 0388 67FF 0B89 1239 D840 4CF0 39E2 18D3 4A9E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE2tJOTPA54hjTSp4RAqCfAKClqK/MDzkqduqB3w013rqs/dS0dwCfYxi/ zkuA233QSyU69ZDXuwmUE7w= =o7Cc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list