[Iftop-users] Feature request: pppd decapsulation (I think)

[James Lay]

Stays up, but never reports anything.  Frankly I don't blame it
since....you know.....the interface it was monitoring just vanished 😉

On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 11:32 -0500, Scott Bertilson via iftop-users
wrote:
> Does iftop exit when the PPP connection drops or does it stay up but
> never report anything again?
> 
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:48 AM James Lay <jlay at slave-tothe-box.net>
> wrote:
> > ...Ok.
> > iftop -i ppp0 : I get good dataiftop -i eth1: I get nothing
> > James
> > On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 10:11 -0500, Shawn Landden wrote:
> > > I think you should make a list of the order things happen
> > > 
> > > If I start iftop like this....then 
> > > 1
> > > 2
> > > 3
> > > 4
> > > 
> > > And like this...
> > > 
> > > 1
> > > 2
> > > 3
> > > 4
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 16:06, 25 de septiembre de 2020, James Lay <
> > > jlay at slave-tothe-box.net>:
> > > > So,
> > > > 
> > > > I have an interface, eth1, that is used for pppd (connects
> > > > direct to the modem) that is used to create the ppp0 virtual
> > > > interface.  When using iftop on ppp0, it works great.  Sadly
> > > > sometimes that interface bounces, and iftop stops reporting
> > > > data after it comes back up.  When trying to use iftop on eth1,
> > > > no data is reported even when ppp0 is up.  Can we get iftop to
> > > > work on ppp0?  I hope I explained it well...thank you!
> > > > 
> > > > James
> > > > 
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