Gentoo port of the week: Nethogs

• Author: Solène
• Date: 17 October 2017
• Tags: portoftheweek gentoo

NILToday I will present you a nice port (from Gentoo this time, not from

a FreeBSD) and this port is even linux only.

• nethogs* is a console program which shows the bandwidth usage of

each running application consuming network. This can be particulary

helpful to find which application is sending traffic and at which

rate.

It can be installed with emerge as simple as `emerge -av

net-analyzer/nethogs`.

It is very simple of use, just type nethogs in a terminal (as

root). There are some parameters and it's a bit interactive but I

recommend reading the manual if you need some details about them.

I am currently running Gentoo on my main workstation, that makes me

discover new things so maybe I will write more regularly about gentoo

ports.