Top-like tool for IP traffic

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I need to keep watch on how much bandwidth some connections are taking in a server, and I know I have seen a top-like tool for that before. However, I can't remember the name of the tool, and I'm not having much luck searching for it.

So, is there a top-like tool for that? I'm running Debian.

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what OS are you looking at? – Jim B Jun 10 '11 at 14:21

Mike Pennington · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-26T06:04:01.537

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iftop or pktstat -nT (for short term monitoring) is what you need to do this (under *nix). For long-term monitoring, ntop is useful.

Finding pktstat is a little tricky for those who aren't running a Debian / Ubuntu box, but this is a decent pktstat source-code archive

Use tcpview if you want the same kind of stats under windows

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answered Jun 10 '11 at 14:19

Mike Pennington

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Tested ntop and it is pretty neat. However, the man page sucks to say where it saves the data to read after a run. – Soham Chakraborty Dec 26 '13 at 12:45

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '11 at 14:27

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You might also want to have a look at iptraf.

answered Jun 10 '11 at 14:27

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Not Available · Answer 3 · 2011-06-10T17:06:45.570

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There's also nethogs which shows traffic per process, most of the popular distros have a package for it.

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answered Jun 10 '11 at 16:37

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 10 '11 at 17:15

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I am partial for pktstat. It can easily also show real-time data on the traffic as URLs for HTTP GETs, queries for DNS, etc.

answered Jun 10 '11 at 17:15

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Ok, I'm really enjoying pktstat. I like iftop's display better, but seeing the URLs is particularly useful for me at the moment! I'll stick with my original accepted answer on the grounds that it provided a Windows alternative as well, and that iftop does the job. – Daniel C. Sobral Jun 10 '11 at 18:29

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 19 '12 at 14:30

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jnettop is my personal favorite. Seems to exist for most distros. Ref: http://jnettop.kubs.info/wiki/

answered Jun 19 '12 at 14:30

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 11 '11 at 19:58

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There is also ntop, although it isn't terminal based anymore.

answered Jun 11 '11 at 19:58

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Top-like tool for IP traffic

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