iftop command

[Hal Duston]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:42:21PM -0500, Kendric Beachey wrote:
> Recently I had a ton of network traffic going in and out of my machine and I
> couldn't figure out why.  A co-worker pointed me to this tool:
> 
> http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/
> 
> It's apparently at least 4 years old, and may be well known to a bunch of
> folks this email will reach, but it was new to me and I found it useful, so
> I thought I'd share.
> 
> Does anyone know of a tool that tells you which process is generating
> network traffic?  iftop just shows which hosts it's going to/from, which was
> enough for me to figure out who the culprit was in this case.

netstat -apent

includes process information as well as some other useful items.

> Kendric Beachey

Thanks,
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Hal Duston
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