Monitoring Network Activity

Conclusions

With bandwhich, your current network traffic data is displayed in a clear-cut format. You will need a terminal window with enough space to display all of the information bandwhich provides. The fact that the software is no longer under active development does not detract from its usefulness, because the developers are still providing security updates and bug fixes. In the future, the developers might consider adding a process tree as an additional display of the data to improve usability.

Infos

  1. bandwhich: https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich
  2. Project status: https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich/issues/275

The Author

Harald Zisler has been involved with FreeBSD and Linux since the early 1990s. He is the author of various articles and books on technology and IT-related topics.

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