man(8)

🌸 man(8) — bestie edition 🌸

okay so you opened the man(8) page and it's giving very serious sysadmin energy, but honestly? this tool is iconic and you deserve to actually understand it. buckle up. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

FastNetMon — a high performance DoS/DDoS load analyzer built on top of multiple packet capture engines. no cap, that's the whole vibe. it watches your traffic and goes "bestie… that's an attack." 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fastnetmon [--daemonize]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. one binary, one optional flag, main character energy. 👑

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

FastNetMon is a high performance DoS/DDoS load analyzer built on top of multiple packet capture engines — and the engines it rides on are NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, and port mirror. literally a whole squad of capture methods. pick your fighter. 🎀

for more information about configuration, please look at the comments in /etc/fastnetmon.conf and check the project GitHub page: https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon. the config file is where all the real lore lives, so go read the comments, i'm begging you 🙈

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay so here's the tea: fastnetmon has only a single command line option. just one. and it's this one:

• --daemonize — used for forking and detaching it from the terminal. so it dips out of your terminal and goes to live its own life in the background. periodt. 🌈

fr fr, that's the entire option list. don't go looking for more, there aren't more. 💀

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• fastnetmon_client(1) — yes go read that one too, iykyk 🫶

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✨ BUGS ✨

No known bugs. 😭✨ not a single one. she's flawless. we love a queen with a clean record. 💖

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Pavel Odintsov (pavel.odintsov@gmail.com) — the legend themselves. thank you for your service. 🫡🌸

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version 1.2.1, dated 02 May 2022, filed under man(8) — mwah, go forth and monitor your packets bestie 💜🦋