From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 19 19:05:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4022716A402 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:05:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C758243D46 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:05:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k3JJ5UjA030885; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:05:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:05:30 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Michael Grant Message-ID: <20060419190529.GA18095@dan.emsphone.com> References: <62b856460604191108s63b57737oa9a65733a183cac6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <62b856460604191108s63b57737oa9a65733a183cac6@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: top for tcpdump X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:05:31 -0000 In the last episode (Apr 19), Michael Grant said: > Does anyone know of a tool like top that displays the open tcp > connections and sorts them by which is causing the most bandwidth? > > I have someone consuming a lot of bandwidth but with so many tcp > connections, I'm not sure who it is. Both trafshow and iftop in ports do this. Trafshow lets you drill into individual streams and watch the data flow, and iftop gives you nice bar graphs. :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com