Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
Mike Egglestone, 2002-May-28 23:30 -0700:
>
> Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my
> system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2
> computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc the
> small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity.
> Now I have no firewall under linux I would like to have some way of at least
> monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if there
> is any small utility that can do this under woody.
>
> Hi,
>
> For X-Windows, I use a fast little manager called icewm,
> which by default shows your network link activity, and cpu usuage.
> You can customize it nicely too. (change colors etc)
I use gkrellm to monitor network activity along with CPU, Disk,
APM, Memory and Swap usage. I highly recommend it. Very powerful yet
light on the resources.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
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