From fbe6bca23f1003fd550e011e7c56bf49f2e39700 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnout Engelen Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 22:29:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add links to similar software --- README.md | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c3dfc84..588d94c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ Nethogs [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/raboof/nethogs.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/raboof/nethogs) -http://raboof.github.io/nethogs - Introduction ------------ @@ -12,8 +10,7 @@ NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per prot NetHogs does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. If there's suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and immediately see which PID is causing this. This makes it easy to indentify programs that have gone wild and are suddenly taking up your bandwidth. -Since NetHogs heavily relies on `/proc`, some functionalities are only available on Linux. - +Since NetHogs heavily relies on `/proc`, most features are only available on Linux. NetHogs can be built on Mac OS X, but it will only show connections, not processes. Status @@ -75,6 +72,18 @@ of different applications successfully using the same libnethogs are slim. libnethogs is being used in https://github.com/mb-gh/gnethogs +links +----- + +Nethogs monitors traffic going to/from a machine, per process. Other tools rather monitor what kind of traffic travels to, from or through a machine, etcetera. I'll try to link to such tools here. By all means open an issue/PR if you know another: + +* [nettop](http://srparish.net/scripts/) shows packet types, sorts by either size or number of packets. +* [ettercap](http://ettercap.sf.net/) is a network sniffer/interceptor/logger for ethernet +* [darkstat](http://purl.org/net/darkstat/) breaks down traffic by host, protocol, etc. Geared towards analysing traffic gathered over a longer period, rather than `live' viewing. +* [iftop](http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/) shows network traffic by service and host +* [ifstat](http://gael.roualland.free.fr/ifstat/) shows network traffic by interface in a vmstat/iostat-like manner +* [BusyTasks](http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=143833) KDE Plasmoid script using nethogs as a backend + License -------