Thursday 7 November 2013

How to install iftop in Linux servers

iftop is a command line tool that shows a list of active network connections between local host and any remote host, sorted by their bandwidth usage. The list of top-ranking network connections (in terms of bandwith usage) is periodically refreshed in a text-based user interface. Using iftop, you can visually check the bidirectional bandwidth usage of different network connections in real time. In order to install iftop on Linux, follow the instructions below.

If you would like to build and install the latest version of iftop manually, do the following.
$ yum -y install ncurses-devel libpcap-devel
$ wget http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/download/iftop-0.17.tar.gz
$ tar xvfvz iftop-0.17.tar.gz
$ cd iftop-0.17
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

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