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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage
From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
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>> > I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems
>> > pretty high.  Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data?
>>
>> $ eix ^ntop
>> [I] net-analyzer/ntop
>>       Available versions:  3.3.9-r2 ~3.3.10-r1 {ipv6 ssl tcpd}
>>       Installed versions:  3.3.9-r2(14:11:46 06/25/09)(ssl tcpd -ipv6)
>>       Homepage:            http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html
>>       Description:         Network traffic analyzer with web interface
>>
>> $
>
> Also iftop and lsof with some clever regex-ing if you want to see what
> program
> drives the connection.

Thank you, iftop is great:

iftop -i ppp0 -P

- Grant