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On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, gentuxx wrote: |
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> michael@×××××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>> this has been a fascinating conversation. thanks boris for starting it. |
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>> i've tested almost everything that has been mentioned. |
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>> i often have to monitor my computers over slow text-only ssh |
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>> sessions, so my |
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>> focus may be a bit different from others. |
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>> tcpdump (and ethereal/wireshark) of course can not be beat for |
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>> looking inside |
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>> packets. |
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>> to see what connections are open and how much data they are |
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>> transferring, in a |
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>> telnet/ssh situation i like bmon and iftop. i especially appreciate the |
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>> "graphical" feature of bmon. |
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>> in real graphical environments, i like etherape. |
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>> thanks to everyone who has contributed so much wisdom |
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>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Norman Rie? wrote: |
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>>> Boris Sobolev schrieb: |
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>>>> Hi folks, |
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>>>> I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. |
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>>>> Any command to use for that? |
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>>>> Thanks. |
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>>>> Boris |
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>>> iftop |
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>>> is nice to watch, what connetions are currently open an how many |
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>>> traffic they produce. |
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>>> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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> For the graphically challenged, or the CLI initiated, try bwm-ng. I |
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> initially came across it because of its mention on Richard Bejtlich's |
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> blog. And fortunately there was an ebuild for it in portage! But |
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> it's a pretty cool tool, nonetheless. |
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> I too have tried a few of the different tools mentioned. I have loved |
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> etherape for quite some time (years). Good to know that there's an |
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> ebuild for it! I had almost forgotten all about it until Michael |
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> mentioned it. |
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> gentux |
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another 2 great advantages of etherape: |
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1. looks cool |
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2. i think our brains can better process a lot of information as visual |
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patterns. i have to concentrate more to read all the fields in iftop or bmon, |
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but a quick glance at etherape gives me a very good sense of "it looks ok" or |
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"something seems wrong". etherape is one of those things i always like to |
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leave running, so my brain imprints on the patterns of normal behavior and i |
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can more rapidly spot something out of the ordinary. i try to teach this |
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principle to all my students: know what your system looks like normally, so |
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you can spot something out of the ordinary. |
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