Network traffic show – trafshow
August 10th, 2006 mysurface Posted in Network, trafshow | Hits: 19595 | 7 Comments »
I discover this tools when I play around in a Freebsd vmware image. You may not find it at your yum repo and also apt-get repo. But installation is easy, dependencies are less too. What you need are ncursors and libpcap, use yum search or apt-cache search to query and download the dependencies and download trafshow from here.
Installation is easy, login as root
./configure; make; make installOnce done, type
trafshowand it will allow you to select the interface to show, you can open multiple trafshow to monitor different interfaces. One thing I like about trafshow is it is clean and lively shows me the traffic events, where I usually put that as background, if something unusual happens I will be aware of it.
Trafshow allows you to do filter like tcpdump, for example I want trafshow display me only udp events with source IP is 192.168.1.2
trafshow udp and src 192.168.1.2Press h when you are in trafshow, there have many instant options to play around.
August 10th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
Well, it doesn’t work at Ubuntu Dapper, after compiled, it gets segmentation fault.
August 31st, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Segmentation fault is been fixed by disable the -lslang from the configure.in
autoreconf must be trigger
December 7th, 2006 at 12:14 am
It worked a treat for my Centos4.4 box.
Thank you very much!
October 18th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
why not run the linux-friendly iftop, which IS in repositories?
aptitude install iftop
http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/ for more info
November 11th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
trafshow is included in a debian package, i.e. netdiag
> sudo apt-get install netdiag
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