========================================================================== IPTraf-ng README -------------------------------------------------------------------------- See the CHANGES file for the history of changes. See the INSTALL file for installation instructions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION ----------- IPTraf-ng is a console-based network monitoring program for Linux that displays information about IP traffic. It returns such information as: Current TCP connections UDP, ICMP, OSPF, and other types of IP packets Packet and byte counts on TCP connections IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, non-IP, and other packet and byte counts TCP/UDP counts by ports Packet counts by packet sizes Packet and byte counts by IP address Interface activity Flag statuses on TCP packets LAN station statistics This program can be used to determine the type of traffic on your network, and what kind of service is the most heavily used on what machines, among others. IPTraf-ng works on Ethernet, FDDI, PLIP, loopback, and SLIP/PPP interfaces. Also supports GRE-over-IP tunnels, 802.1ad and QinQ VLAN, and SIT tunnels. Updates and announcements are at the iptraf-ng@lists.fedorahosted.org, see README.contact for more information. IMPORTANT CHANGES ----------------- Important changes are detailed in the CHANGES file, please take some time to read it. There are some changes in the log file names, and the policies on multiple instances have been somewhat relaxed. DISTRIBUTION NOTICE ------------------- This is the general release of IPTraf-ng. IPTraf-ng has been incorporated into the Fedora, RHEL-7.0, Centos-7.0, Ubuntu, Debian GNU/Linux, Turbolinux and S.u.S.E. distributions, as well as the Trinux security toolkit distribution. Linux distributions may have tailored the IPTraf-ng package to suit their purposes. Send direct questions, comments or inquiries about a distribution-specific package to its maintainer. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ------------------- IPTraf-ng 1.1.x and later requires at least Linux kernel 2.2. It uses the new PF_PACKET socket family as its capture mechanism. This feature is new to the 2.2 kernel. Make sure you have the Packet Socket driver compiled in or installed as a module, or IPTraf-ng will fail (and so will others like it: tcpdump, netwatch, etc). IPTraf-ng also requires glibc 2.1 or later. COPYING AND DISTRIBUTION ------------------------ This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative. Redistribution and modification of this software is permitted under the terms of the GNU General Public License V2. See the included LICENSE file for details. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ----------------------- Full information is in the manual in the Documentation directory. See also the CHANGES file for a record of fixes and new features. Updates and announcements are in the IPTraf-ng Web page indicated above. Other README files contain some other bits of information.