[Iftop-users] Simple text output

Andy Wolin andywolin at gmail.com
Mon Nov 23 05:26:22 GMT 2015


Also take a look at 'bandwidth monitor next generation'.  It is a similar
command line tool that can log to a file or stdout.  I used it to make
plots of large downloads to benchmark various wireless router
configurations.

https://www.gropp.org/?id=projects&sub=bwm-ng

Thanks,
Andy


On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Philippe Faure <philippe at faure.ca> wrote:

> Hello Frédéric,
>
> I had a look at iftop and the -t option doesn't exist. Well at least in
> the version that I have installed.
>
> I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.  Which is limited to iftop 1.0~pre2.5.
>
> Once I have first figured out how to update to the newer version of iftop
> without changing from the current LTS configuration, I will give the "-t"
> option a try.
>
> Thank you
>
> Philippe
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Frédéric Perrin <fred at fperrin.net>:
>
> Hello Philippe,
>>
>> On 22/11/2015 14:35, philippe at faure.ca wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am looking to find a way to record data usage from a specific device
>>> on my network. Ideally the out out would be a text file with the total
>>> usage. Is there a way to have iftop run in the background and have it
>>> update a file.
>>>
>>
>> Does the -t option to iftop do what you want? You would redirect the
>> output to a log file or pipe it to a script.
>>
>> If not, is there another utility that people know about the might be
>>> able to help me?
>>>
>>
>> Another solution if you're trying to do traffic accounting is something
>> like net-acct. On a students' network, we used to log something like
>> (timestamp, source IP & port, destination IP & port, volume), and then
>> use this to hunt bandwidth hogs.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Fred.
>>
>
>
>
>
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