what's clogging up my network?

[steve]

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 04:49 +0000, thufir wrote:
> I know to run netstat, but I'm not sure how to interpret the results.  
> With regularity I notice that my network usage is pegged at %100 or near 
> and this slows down everything, and could be costing me money.  How do I 
> figure out what's going on?
> 
> 
> is there something like "top" which will show what's using the most of 
> the connection?
> 

iftop

monitor the interface in realtime



SR