Find who is using my network – top for network utilization
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 ”iftop -f
- 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 ”why is our ADSL link so slow?”.
For those of you, fond of pictures, here’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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Authored By Amit Agarwal
Amit Agarwal, Linux and Photography are my hobbies.Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.