Re: Monitoring network activity
AG wrote:
Every now and again the lights on my broadband modem start flashing
which indicates package transmission/ receiving. When I have
deliberately started an application to access the web (e.g. web
browser, email client, etc.) that's fine. I do get a little concerned
however when the lights flash and I cannot find an app that is
accessing/ receiving info from the web.
How would I go about finding out what application is connecting to the
web and/ or what is connecting to my machine to cause the modem light
activity? I've tried ps -A and ps -aux but this shows up a lot of
info which makes it difficult to see any particular activity that may
be responsible.
netstat and ntop can tell you a lot about network connections
I came across this recently, but haven't gotten around to trying it:
http://nethogs.sourceforge.net/
Which purports to tell you what individual programs are doing vis-a-vis
the net - sort of lsof for network connections, and exactly what you're
asking for.
Miles Fidelman
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