Iftop Network card traffic monitoring using Linux

In a class Linux system, you can use top to view information such as system resources, processes, memory consumption, and so on. View network status You can use Netstat, nmap and other tools. To see real-time network traffic, monitor TCP/IP connectivity, and so on, you can use Iftop.

First, Iftop What is it?

The iftop is a real-time traffic monitoring tool similar to top.

Official website: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/

Second, Iftop What's the use?

Iftop can be used to monitor the real-time traffic of the network card (can specify the network segment), reverse resolution of IP, display port information, etc., detailed will be described in the following usage parameters.

Third, installation Iftop

Installation Method 1 , Compiling the installation

If the use of compiled installation can go to the Iftop official website to download the latest source package.

Pre-installation requires the installation of the necessary environment for the basic compilation, such as Make, GCC, autoconf and so on. Installing the Iftop also requires the installation of Libpcap and libcurses.

CentOS Install the required dependency package on:

Yum Install Flex BYACC libpcap ncurses ncurses-devel libpcap-devel

Debian Install the required dependency package on:

Apt-get Install Flex BYACC libpcap0.8 libncurses5

Download Iftop

wget http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/download/iftop-0.17.tar.gz

Tar zxvf iftop-0.17.tar.gz

CD iftop-0.17

./configure–prefix=/usr/local/iftopd

Make && make install

Installation Method 2 : ( lazy Way, the simplest )

Omit the above steps directly

CentOS System:

Yum Install Flex BYACC libpcap ncurses ncurses-devel

wget ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/RPMS/iftop-0.17-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

RPM-IVH iftop-0.17-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Debian system operation: Apt-get install Iftop

Four, the Operation Iftop

cd/usr/local/iftopd/sbin/

./iftop

Effects such as:

Five, relevant parameters and description

1 , Iftop Interface Related Instructions

The interface above shows a scale range similar to that of the scale, which is used as a ruler for the bar showing the flow graph.

The <= in the middle and the two left and right arrows indicate the direction of the flow.

TX: Send Traffic
RX: Receive Traffic
Total: Overall flow
Cumm: Total traffic running iftop to current time
Peak: Traffic Peaks
Rates: Represents the average traffic for the past 2s 10s 40s, respectively

2 , Iftop Related Parameters

Common parameters

-I set the monitoring network card, such as: # Iftop-i eth1

-B displays traffic in bytes (default is bits), such as: # Iftop-b

-N Causes the host information to display IP directly by default, such as: # Iftop-n

-N causes port information to be displayed by default directly, such as: # Iftop-n

-F shows incoming and outgoing traffic for a specific segment, such as # iftop-f 10.10.1.0/24 or # iftop-f 10.10.1.0/255.255.255.0

-H (Display this message), Help, display parameter information

-p after using this parameter, the middle list shows the local host information, and the IP information outside of this machine appears;

-B to display the flow graph bar by default;

-F This is not very likely to use, filter the calculation of the packet;

-P enables host information and port information to be displayed by default;

-M sets the maximum value of the top-most scale of the interface, with a scale of five large segments, for example: # iftop-m 100M

Enter Iftop Some operation commands after the screen ( Note Case )

Press H to toggle whether help is displayed;

Press N to toggle the display of the IP or host name of the machine;

Press S to toggle whether the host information of the machine is displayed;

Press D to toggle whether the host information of the remote target hosts is displayed;

Press T to toggle the display format to 2 lines/1 lines/Only send traffic/show receive traffic only;

Press N to toggle display port number or port service name;

Press S to toggle whether to display the port information of the machine;

Press D to toggle whether the port information of the remote target host is displayed;

Press p to toggle whether the port information is displayed;

Press p to toggle pause/resume display;

Press B to toggle whether the average flow graph bar is displayed;

The average flow in 2 seconds or 10 seconds or 40 seconds is calculated by B switch;

Press T to toggle whether the total traffic for each connection is displayed;

Press L to turn on the screen filtering function, enter the characters to filter, such as IP, press ENTER, the screen will only show this IP-related traffic information;

Press L to toggle the scale on the top of the display screen, and the flow graph bar will change depending on the scale;

Press J or press K to scroll up or down the screen to display the connection record;

Press 1 or 2 or 3 to sort by the three-column traffic data displayed on the right;

Sort by < According to the native name or IP on the left;

Sort by > According to the host name or IP of the remote target host;

Press O to toggle whether the current connection is fixed only;

Press F to edit the filter code, this is translated by the saying, I have not used this!

You can use the shell command, this is useless! I don't know what the order is.

Press Q to exit the monitor.

Vi. FAQs

1, Make:yacc:Command not found
Make: * * * [GRAMMAR.C] Error 127

Workaround: Apt-get Install Byacc/yum install BYACC

2, configure:error:curses! Foiled again!
(Can ' t find a curses library supporting Mvchgat.)
Consider installing ncurses.

Workaround: Apt-get Install Libncurses5-dev/yum install Ncurses-deve

Iftop Network card traffic monitoring using Linux