Need Utility Program

[GhostDawg]

Is there an utility program to monitor your internet traffic that normally sits in tray? I currently using Debian with Gnome and do have KDE installed also.

Thnx.

Firestarter (http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/) - Sorta monitors traffic.

There's also Network Monitor GNOME Applet. Should be in your pannel utility thing, if you're running one of the newer GNOME versions, I think 2.6.0 and higher.

[GhostDawg]

Is the network monitor similar to the one that windows uses? Similar to the dialup modem monitor, where the lights blink when net activity is active. Looks like a computer icon.

Thnx.

[countach44]

I use iptraf, but that runs in a terminal.

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Looks like a computer icon.
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Yes, two monitor shaped pixmaps. The applet sits on your panel and flashes whenever there is any activity on the specified device (EG: eth0, ppp0, lo, etc.).

[GhostDawg]

Yes that's it. So you say it's called Network Monitor, well I can't seem to find it on Gnome 2.6. Does anybody know what the command to apt-get it? I've tried netmon and different variants but still no go.

Thnx.

`Network Monitor 2.*.*', is the actual name written by SUN Microsystems.

It's been awhile since I used GNOME 2.6.* but it should be a stock applet. Try apt-getting `gnome-netstatus-applet', that maybe the applet if I'm not wrong. :-\

[Tyr_7BE]

actually I've used both Gnome 2.6 and 2.8 and in both cases the network applet wasn't installed by default. I never did get around to finding it, as I use the system monitor instead. Try adding a System Monitor (I think that's what it's called) to the panel, and right-click and go to preferences. Tell it to display network info as well and you get a little graph that displays network activity for the last few seconds.

[GhostDawg]

Ok I found it when I went to Add to Panel. It's was listed as Network Monitor. And there is another one called NetMon and it's more text based looking.

I did install gnome-netstatus-applet, so I don't know what exactly it added, and I don't know if I had network monitor installed all the time.

Thnx for the help.