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Asked: 2010-04-03 08:41:30 +0800 CST

Monitor Network Activity of Applications and Users from the Command Line (like Top does for processor)

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Is there a linux command, that works like "top" (like top does for monitoring processor utilization), but shows network activity of users and applications realtime?

I want something that shows everything going on, where I don't have to specify each and everything to get an overview. Anything like this?

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3 Answers

  1. Iptraf is pretty nice for live overviews, vnstat is a lightweight alternative for every-now-and-then statistics.

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  2. pktstat is a great cmdline utility; shows url paths etc

    tcptrack is also good.

    iptraf is also okay.

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  3. The best one I know of is ntop, but it display stats via a web interface on port 3000. Not sure if there's one that runs just via a terminal.

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