IPTRAF-NG(8)

💖 IPTRAF-NG 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the iptraf-ng manual page — that's the System Manager's Manual version, section 8, and yes she's serving iconic ncurses energy ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

iptraf — Interactive Colorful IP LAN Monitor 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

iptraf-ng { [ -f ] [ { -i iface | -g | -d iface | -s iface | -z iface |
-l iface } [ -t timeout ] [ -B [ -L logfile ] ] ] | [ -h ] }

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So iptraf-ng is this ncurses-based IP LAN monitor, right, and she generates all kinds of network statistics for you — TCP info, UDP counts, ICMP and OSPF information, Ethernet load info, node stats, IP checksum errors, and others too. literally the whole buffet 🍓

And here's the cute part: if you just run the iptraf-ng command with no command-line options at all, the program comes up in interactive mode, and you get to all the various facilities through the main menu. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

These options can also be supplied to the command, bestie:

• -i iface — immediately start the IP traffic monitor on the specified interface. or, if you hit her with -i all, she'll do all interfaces 💖
• -g — immediately start the general interface statistics
• -d iface — lets you immediately start the detailed on the indicated interface (iface)
• -s iface — lets you immediately monitor TCP and UDP traffic on the specified interface (iface)
• -z iface — shows packet counts by size on the specified interface
• -l iface — start the LAN station monitor on the specified interface, or all LAN interfaces if you say -l all 🌈
• -t timeout — tells IPTraf-ng to run the specified facility for only timeout minutes. heads up tho, this option is used only with one of the above parameters 🫶
• -B — redirects standard output to /dev/null, closes standard input, and forks the program into the background. can be used only with one of the facility invocation parameters above. to terminate it, send the backgrounded process a USR2 signal 💀
• -L logfile — lets you specify an alternate log file name. the default log file name is based on either the interface selected (detailed interface statistics, TCP/UDP service statistics, packet size breakdown), or the instance of the facility (IP traffic monitor, LAN station monitor). if a path is not specified, the log file gets placed in /var/log/iptraf-ng 🎀
• -f — clears all locks and counters, which makes this instance of IPTraf-ng think it's the first one running.

⚠️ bestie, -f should only be used to recover from an abnormal termination or system crash. don't be out here using it for fun, i'm begging 🙈

• -h — shows a command summary ⭐

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🌈 SIGNALS 🌈

• SIGUSR1 — rotates log files while the program is running
• SIGUSR2 — terminates an IPTraf-ng process running in the background

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🦋 FILES 🦋

• /var/log/iptraf-ng/*.log — log file
• /var/lib/iptraf-ng/* — important IPTraf-ng data files

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Documentation/* — complete documentation written by the author

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Gerard Paul Java (riker@mozcom.com)

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🌸 MANUAL AUTHOR 🌸

Frederic Peters (fpeters@debian.org), using iptraf-ng -h

General manual page modifications by Gerard Paul Java (riker@mozcom.com), Phil Cameron (pcameron@redhat.com)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was the IPTraf-ng Help Page for IPTRAF-NG(8), straight from the System Manager's Manual, and yeah no date on this one so we're keeping the vibe timeless ✨ mwah, go monitor some packets 💅