[X-Unix] How to monitor inbound/outbound network traffic?

Brent Baisley brent at landover.com
Fri May 20 07:39:29 PDT 2005


Yo can try using tcpdump in your terminal. It's more of a technical 
tool, but at the very least you can find out what ip address you are 
talking to.

sudo tcpdump


On May 20, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Rad Craig wrote:

> Right now, I'm watching the light (xfer) on my network card and it's 
> lit up almost solid, like I was downloading/uploading something, 
> something (data) is going in or out.  I want to know what it is?  
> Which application is sending it and what its sending.  I don't have 
> anything running right now that should be constantly transferring data 
> like this.  Its as if someone is sucking data off of my computer.  Is 
> there a program/app/utility/script that will allow me to find out what 
> is going on?
>
>
> Rad...
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