2009/2/21 javadayaz <javada...@gmail.com>: > im connected to a network...is there anyway i can monitor in real time the > amount of traffic going through the router? like a little widget or > something > > hope this makes sense :) >
a...@hactar:/tmp$ apt-cache search iftop iftop - displays bandwidth usage information on an network interface Description: displays bandwidth usage information on an network interface iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question "Why is my Internet link so slow?". And this is what it looks like - fixed font required:- 1.91Mb 3.81Mb 5.72Mb 7.63Mb 9.54Mb └───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴─────────────── hactar.lan => 192.168.129.237 1.37Mb 1.52Mb 1.53Mb <= 34.9Kb 38.1Kb 38.1Kb hactar.lan => ik-in-f18.google.com 0b 5.33Kb 4.61Kb <= 0b 16.2Kb 10.4Kb hactar.lan => lou.popey.com 416b 707b 630b <= 1.28Kb 6.83Kb 4.83Kb hactar.lan => registerlafonera.fon.com 0b 0b 216b <= 0b 84b 306b hactar.lan => 224.0.0.251 0b 0b 216b <= 0b 0b 0b ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── TX: cumm: 3.07MB peak: 2.28Mb rates: 1.37Mb 1.53Mb 1.54Mb RX: 107KB 124Kb 36.1Kb 61.2Kb 53.6Kb TOTAL: 3.18MB 2.40Mb 1.40Mb 1.59Mb 1.59Mb Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/