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colbert

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Looking for app to see network activity in shell

I have conky showing me my box's up/down speed just fine but I have a server on my home network too, and I'd love some prog that can show entire network traffic in shell, if possible speed and amount transferred, etc. Very much appreciate any recommendations, thanks!

tam1138

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Re: Looking for app to see network activity in shell

tcpdump! 

colbert

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Re: Looking for app to see network activity in shell

Thanks tam, how can I have it show current speed and/or total data transferred?

tam1138

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Re: Looking for app to see network activity in shell

Er, you can't, directly.  You'd have to write a wrapper around it, or your own little libpcap app.  I don't know of a command-line tool to do precisely what you want.

kclive18

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Re: Looking for app to see network activity in shell

I found something here in AUR called "nload":

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5347

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colbert

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Re: Looking for app to see network activity in shell

Thanks so much kclive18! That is a wonderful program, exactly what I was looking for!!

smoon

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Re: Looking for app to see network activity in shell

Sounds like you want slurm. There's a PKGBUILD in AUR, but unfortunately the source does not seem to be available anymore. Here's a pacman installable package, I created sometime ago: http://nooms.de/files/slurm-0.3.3-1.pkg.tar.gz

colbert

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Re: Looking for app to see network activity in shell

I'd love to try that one smoon, but how do I install it? I have saved the contents of the tar to ~/installs/slurm. Thanks

smoon

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Re: Looking for app to see network activity in shell

I'd love to try that one smoon, but how do I install it? I have saved the contents of the tar to ~/installs/slurm. Thanks

pacman -U http://nooms.de/files/slurm-0.3.3-1.pkg.tar.gz

should work fine.

*Edit*
I just had a look at nload and it looks not too different from slurm.

Last edited by smoon (2008-08-27 19:39:05)

colbert

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Re: Looking for app to see network activity in shell

Thanks smoon! I have it working and it is excellent! However I can't get the Interface speed set so it knows my bandwidth (as can be set in nload with -u/-U). Haven't seen option with --help either?

Also, how can I have nload include traffic from my server box on the network, or is that not possible? (ie., eth0 on 2nd arch on network).

Last edited by colbert (2008-08-27 19:54:15)

smoon

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Re: Looking for app to see network activity in shell

Thanks smoon! I have it working and it is excellent! However I can't get the Interface speed set so it knows my bandwidth (as can be set in nload with -u/-U). Haven't seen option with --help either?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that. AFAIK there's no equivalent to nloads -u/U options. But slurm should know your bandwidth without something like that.

Also, how can I have nload include traffic from my server box on the network, or is that not possible? (ie., eth0 on 2nd arch on network).

I don't know if nload can do that. But to monitor more boxen in your network you should consider giving something more advanced like ntop or iptraf a try.

colbert

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Re: Looking for app to see network activity in shell

I have taken a look at iptraf and ntop.. they are far more than what I require. nload is really fantastic and does the job Thanks a lot for your help!

SkonesMickLoud

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Re: Looking for app to see network activity in shell

Sorry to bump a month old thread, but you should check out vnstat.  It's command line driven, but the results can easily be dropped into conky.