Monitor bandwidth usage per application or IP

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i want to monitor the bandwidth usage per application or per IP, currently im using wireshark to do the work, but are there any software dedicated just for this type of job?

thanks

Best Answer

iftop (iftop homepage) gives you a realtime view over bandwidth usage of an network interface. It's very helpful when you want to discover connections which are using lots of bandwidth. After installing, just start "iftop -i eth0", where eth0 is your network interface.

EDIT: For Linux/Unix OS.

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