iftop

[viking60]

Iftop is the brother of Top and Htop. It keeps track of where your bandwith is going. and monitors your network.
Here it is shown in my standard guake terminal:

If you run iftop from the CLI it will attempt to monitor your network interface, If you are on wireless you might have to do a

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iftop -i wlan0

Here you see it to the left in an urxvt terminal that is transparent and integrayed in my wallpaper, so I have a "live" wallpaper with network info.

[rolf]

That's a good new tip for me.
Sometimes I wish I could see what is going through my nic and this looks very informative.
For some reason, it chose eth1 by default, which is not being used, and I needed to tell it -i eth0 to see my wired connection.

( I see some iftop screenies in my Dropbox from a year and a half ago. but it's good to be reminded of good info. )

[viking60]

Yes it is a good one. Even if Gurus know it already.
It should be run as root.

Iptraf is a good alternative if you need to watch a server.