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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:45:55
Message-Id: 49bf44f10907060645j7a6e697ah2cfdc8a62c27d7c7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage by Mick
1 >> > I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems
2 >> > pretty high. Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data?
3 >>
4 >> $ eix ^ntop
5 >> [I] net-analyzer/ntop
6 >> Available versions: 3.3.9-r2 ~3.3.10-r1 {ipv6 ssl tcpd}
7 >> Installed versions: 3.3.9-r2(14:11:46 06/25/09)(ssl tcpd -ipv6)
8 >> Homepage: http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html
9 >> Description: Network traffic analyzer with web interface
10 >>
11 >> $
12 >
13 > Also iftop and lsof with some clever regex-ing if you want to see what
14 > program
15 > drives the connection.
16
17 Thank you, iftop is great:
18
19 iftop -i ppp0 -P
20
21 - Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage Dan Cowsill <danthehat@×××××.com>