Ok here is something that I have been looking for something.  Now that I have conky installed, so I can see the bandwidth usage on my desktop but was wondering for sometimes, where actually so much is being used. So did some quick search to see if I can get that info and did not have to go too far 🙂

There is s  utility called iftop in the Fedora repo and at the <a href="http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/" target="_blank">URL. Oh and how to use it, just type sudo iftop or if you have multiple network interface then you can do &#8221;iftop -f &#8221;. Thats pretty simple and cool.

Name       : iftop

Arch       : i386

Version    : 0.17

Release    : 7.fc9

Size       : 71 k

Repo       : installed

Summary    : Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface

URL        : http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/

License    : GPLv2+

Description: iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It

listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a

table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for

answering the question &#8221;why is our ADSL link so slow?&#8221;.

For those of you, fond of pictures, here&#8217;s a screenshot:

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-537" title="iftop" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/iftop.jpg" alt="iftop" width="499" height="316" />

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