Information about the package, iftop, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The iftop package is designed for, Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface.
Package Name:
iftop
Summary:
Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface
Description:
iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question "why is our ADSL link so slow?".
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0
Release:
0.14.pre4.el6
Size:
49 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the iftop package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install iftop
This command will install iftop on the server.
yum remove iftop
This command will un-install iftop on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove iftop, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove iftop
This command will un-install iftop on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove iftop when using the -y flag.
yum update iftop
This command will update iftop to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove iftop, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update iftop
This command will update iftop to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove iftop when using the -y flag.
yum info iftop
This command will show you core information about the iftop package.
yum deplist iftop
This command will show you the dependencies for iftop. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update iftop
This command will check if there is an update waiting on iftop. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.