Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-10 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this has been a fascinating conversation. thanks boris for starting it. i've tested almost everything that has been mentioned. i often have to monitor my computers over slow text-only ssh sessions, so my focus may be a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-10 Thread michael
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this has been a fascinating conversation. thanks boris for starting it. i've tested almost everything that has been mentioned. i often have to monitor my computers over slow text-only

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-10 Thread Thomas Harold
Boris Sobolev wrote: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? I haven't seen nettop mentioned yet. It's more of a traffic flow tool showing the bits/sec and packets/sec in a tree format. Works in a terminal window (all

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/9/06, Boris Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? Do you mean a packet analyzer? Then you want wireshark. If you just want to see bandwidth, net-analyzer/nload, or any of the dozens

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Boris Sobolev
I' m not sure if I need packet analyzer or another tool. I can see network activity on my dsl modem led. Right before I switched to Gentoo, my windows box has died for a couple of days ( it had no firewall). It was bunch of viruses, worms and god knows what else. When I turned firewall, it blocked

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:03:55 +0400 Boris Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I' m not sure if I need packet analyzer or another tool. A packet analyzer would be fine, I think. Although me as a CLI-junkie would have suggested tcpdump instead of wireshark :-) Emerge tcpdump, and as root do $

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/9/06, Boris Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect the same thing hapening now. Aside from I need a firewall ( and I deliberatly do not install one,) how can I track an activities that generate that traffic? If you just want to log TCP connection attempts and UDP packets sent to your

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 August 2006 18:15, Boris Sobolev wrote: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? If you use KDE anyway try ksysguard. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na --

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Norman Rieß
Boris Sobolev schrieb: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? Thanks. Boris iftop is nice to watch, what connetions are currently open an how many traffic they produce. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread michael
this has been a fascinating conversation. thanks boris for starting it. i've tested almost everything that has been mentioned. i often have to monitor my computers over slow text-only ssh sessions, so my focus may be a bit different from others. tcpdump (and ethereal/wireshark) of course can