-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
