On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Grant<emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > 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
>
>
I use vnstat. You can get PHP frontends for vnstat that make it nice
and groovy as well.
