HowTo: Install IPTraff LAN Monitoring Tool

IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility and IP LAN monitoring tool for Linux. IPTraf gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts.

IPTraff LAN Monitoring Tool

IPTraf supports a wide variety of network statistics and IP protocols including TCP info, UDP counts, ICMP and OSPF information, Ethernet load info, node stats, IP checksum errors, and others.

IPTraf supports interactive mode execution with the various facilities accessed through the main menu.

IP Main Features includes:

* An IP traffic monitor that shows information on the IP traffic passing over your network. Includes TCP flag information, packet and byte counts, ICMP details, OSPF packet types.
* General and detailed interface statistics showing IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, non-IP and other IP packet counts, IP checksum errors, interface activity, packet size counts.
* A TCP and UDP service monitor showing counts of incoming and outgoing packets for common TCP and UDP application ports
* A LAN statistics module that discovers active hosts and shows statistics showing the data activity on them
* TCP, UDP, and other protocol display filters, allowing you to view only traffic you're interested in.
* Logging
* Supports Ethernet, FDDI, ISDN, SLIP, PPP, and loopback interface types.
* Utilizes the built-in raw socket interface of the Linux kernel, allowing it to be used over a wide range of supported network cards.
* Full-screen, menu-driven operation.

IpTraf supports different host interfaces flexible to fit one's need on monitoring traffic passing thru a host's network. Below are the current list of interfaces supported by IPTraf:

* Local loopback
* All Linux-supported Ethernet interfaces
* All Linux-supported FDDI interfaces
* SLIP
* Asynchronous PPP
* Synchronous PPP over ISDN
* ISDN with Raw IP encapsulation
* ISDN with Cisco HDLC encapsulation
* Parallel Line IP



IPTraf Installation

# yum -y install iptraf

Binary Execution

# iptraf

IPTraf WebShots:





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