

iftop provides information I have not seen any of the other similar monitoring program provides. Q.Other applications like bmon can let me see this sort of information why iftop?Ī.

I say "near Real Time" because it offers you a glimpse of network usage on a 2 second average, a 10 second average and a 40 second average. It is a near Real time network monitor, specifically the network connected to a computer NIC.Ī. Let's do a little quick Q&A to answer som questions you may have.Ī. This first one addresses the use of iftop, specifically on a Debian System, though it should apply to Ubuntu and most of it will apply to all Linux distributions as well. This is one of a few HOW-TO's I am going to write to help people with bandwidth monitoring options. A lot of people ask questions about how to monitor bandwidth usage, there is no dearth of options in this arena.
