what's clogging up my network?

[David Curtis]

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David Curtis wrote:
> steve wrote:
>> 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
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>> monitor the interface in realtime
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>> SR
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> You can also have alot of fun with ntop.
> 
> Start it as root
> 
> $sudo ntop
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> follow the instructions
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> and view the output in a web browser at:
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> http://localhost:3000
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> refresh to update.
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> ntop is about a 10 mb package though.
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> 
> Dave

Oh, and also ntop starts up again as a server automatically next time
you boot. Takes up a small chunk of cpu cycles, more if you have a large
 network. Just so you know. Uninstall it if you don't need it anymore.

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