[Gllug] viewing network traffic with ip (iproute2)

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Thu Aug 9 00:09:27 UTC 2007


On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:21:47PM +0100, Jon Dye wrote:
> I'm trying to switch over to using the new iproute2 stuff and the ip
> command from ifconfig.  So far I've found equivalents of all the old
> behaviour except I can't find a way of showing the number of
> transmitted/received bytes/packets like ifconfig does.  Could someone
> tell me what the equivalent is using the iproute2 commands?

In addition to the other suggestions, ntop and iftop are worth looking
at for general "top"-like stats for network interfaces.

Rich.

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