Shell Shout-Outs: iftop
Folks may shun the shell when using their computers but honestly, there are some great treasures to be found. Today I’ll highlight a great little network bandwidth and connection monitor called iftop.
This handy terminal tool shows a near real-time display of connections to or from your computer through a network device. It will give you a nice little bar-graph representation as well!
You can install it in Ubuntu or Debian with a quick:
$ sudo apt-get install iftop
Then try this to see whats happening on your wireless card:
$ sudo iftop -i wlan0 -P
the “-i
$ ifconfig
enjoy!
