[Iftop-users] Monitoring all traffic
joedson marques
joedson.anid at gmail.com
Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:49:18 -0300
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Bertilson,
It's remains the same wiht "-p". Even if this works,
is not what I want,I wanna the whole bandwith,
passing through a single interface.
I'm using the release 0.17.
Thanks!
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Scott Bertilson <ssb@umn.edu> wrote:
> Any difference in behavior if you use the "-p" (promiscuous) option?
>
> Are you using the previous release (0.17) or 1.0pre2?
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:04 PM, joedson marques <joedson.anid@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Warren,
>>
>> Sorry for won't be clear;
>>
>> Lets me try explain better.
>>
>> As long I open the iftop (passing an interface as parameter)
>> it's show all traffic passing through the respective
>> interface; but shortly after, it starts decreasing
>> the traffic that value, until remains only:
>> current bandwidth usage by *pairs of hosts*,
>> this means, only hosts *directy connected*
>> with the current host (the freeBSD).
>>
>> As this host is a router, most of the traffic that
>> pass through it, isn't directy connected
>> with it, it's *just forwards* this traffic.
>>
>> So, as I wanna monitoring *whole bandwidth*, passing
>> through the interface, the iftop does not show
>> it (all the time, just when I start it); just the traffic of
>> pairs of hosts.
>>
>> Is possible monitoring all traffic passing through
>> the interface, instead only the traffic of the
>> pairs?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
>
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<span class=3D"gD" style=3D"color:#790619"><span style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, =
0);">Bertilson,<br><br>It's remains the same wiht "-p". Even =
if this works, <br>is not what I want,I wanna the whole bandwith, <br>passi=
ng through a single interface.<br>
</span><br style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0=
);">I'm using the release 0.17.</span><br><br><font color=3D"#000000">T=
hanks!</font><br></span><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 21, 2011=
at 3:31 PM, Scott Bertilson <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:ssb@um=
n.edu">ssb@umn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Any difference in behavior if you use the &=
quot;-p" (promiscuous) option?<div><br></div><div>Are you using the pr=
evious release (0.17) or 1.0pre2?</div>
<div><br></div><div><font color=3D"#888888">Scott</font><div><div></div><di=
v class=3D"h5"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1=
:04 PM, joedson marques <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:joedson.ani=
d@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">joedson.anid@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:=
<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Warren,<br><br>Sorry for won't be clear;=
<br><br>Lets me try explain better. <br><br>As long I open the iftop (passi=
ng an interface as parameter)<br>
it's show all traffic passing through the respective<br>interface; but =
shortly after, it starts decreasing<br>
the traffic that value, until remains only:<br>current bandwidth usage by <=
b>pairs of hosts</b>,<br>this means, only hosts <b>directy connected</b><br=
>with the current host (the freeBSD).<br><br>As this host is a router, most=
of the=A0 traffic that<br>
pass through it, isn't directy connected<br>with it, it's <b>just f=
orwards</b> this traffic.<br><br>So, as I wanna monitoring <b>whole bandwid=
th</b>, passing<br>through the interface, the iftop does not show<br>it (al=
l the time, just when I start it); just the traffic of <br>
pairs of hosts.<br><br>Is possible monitoring all traffic passing through<b=
r>the interface, instead only the traffic of the<br>pairs?<br><br>Thanks!<b=
r>
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