- 22
- Jan
Not the official ntop logo - icon courtesy of Tango Desktop Project
Forget about tools like lsof and netstat for trouble shooting and analyzing network traffic. Ntop blows everything else away. It comes jam packed with a web interface and outputs more data than you can shake a stick at. Ntop analyzes everything about how, where, when, and what your PC is connecting to on the internet.
I am running Linux Mint — installation is a cinch. This procedure should be the same on Ubuntu and other Debian based distributions. Make sure you have the universe repositories enabled.
sudo apt-get install ntop
The above will install ntop, now set a password:
sudo ntop --set-admin-password
Start ntop with the following command:
sudo ntop -u ntop -d -i eth0
