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IPTRAF-NG(8)             System Manager's Manual            IPTRAF-NG(8)

NAME

       iptraf - Interactive Colorful IP LAN Monitor

SYNOPSIS

       iptraf-ng { [ -f ] [ { -i iface | -g | -d iface | -s iface | -z
       iface | -l iface } [ -t timeout ] [ -B [ -L logfile ] ] ] | [ -h
       ] }

DESCRIPTION

       iptraf-ng is an ncurses-based IP LAN monitor that generates
       various network statistics including TCP info, UDP counts, ICMP
       and OSPF information, Ethernet load info, node stats, IP checksum
       errors, and others.

       If the iptraf-ng command is issued without any command-line
       options, the program comes up in interactive mode, with the
       various facilities accessed through the main menu.

OPTIONS

       These options can also be supplied to the command:

       -i iface
              immediately start the IP traffic monitor on the specified
              interface, or all interfaces if "-i all" is specified

       -g     immediately start the general interface statistics

       -d iface
              allows you to immediately start the detailed on the
              indicated interface (iface)

       -s iface
              allows you to immediately monitor TCP and UDP traffic on
              the specified interface (iface)

       -z iface
              shows packet counts by size on the specified interface

       -l iface
              start the LAN station monitor on the specified interface,
              or all LAN interfaces if "-l all" is specified

       -t timeout
              tells IPTraf-ng to run the specified facility for only
              timeout minutes.  This option is used only with one of the
              above parameters.

       -B     redirect standard output to /dev/null, closes standard
              input, and forks the program into the background.  Can be
              used only with one of the facility invocation parameters
              above.  Send the backgrounded process a USR2 signal to
              terminate.

       -L logfile
              allows you to specify an alternate log file name.  The
              default log file name is based on either the interface
              selected (detailed interface statistics, TCP/UDP service
              statistics, packet size breakdown), or the instance of the
              facility (IP traffic monitor, LAN station monitor).  If a
              path is not specified, the log file is placed in
              /var/log/iptraf-ng

       -f     clears all locks and counters, causing this instance of
              IPTraf-ng to think it's the first one running.  This
              should only be used to recover from an abnormal
              termination or system crash.

       -h     shows a command summary

SIGNALS

        SIGUSR1 - rotates log files while program is running
        SIGUSR2 - terminates an IPTraf-ng process running in the
       background.

FILES

        /var/log/iptraf-ng/*.log - log file
        /var/lib/iptraf-ng/* - important IPTraf-ng data files

SEE ALSO

        Documentation/* - complete documentation written by the author

AUTHOR

       Gerard Paul Java (riker@mozcom.com)

MANUAL AUTHOR

       Frederic Peters (fpeters@debian.org), using iptraf-ng -h General
       manual page modifications by Gerard Paul Java (riker@mozcom.com),
       Phil Cameron (pcameron@redhat.com)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of the iptraf-ng (Interactive Colorful IP LAN
       Monitor) project.  Information about the project can be found at
       ⟨https://github.com/iptraf-ng/iptraf-ng⟩.  If you have a bug
       report for this manual page, see ⟨[unknown]⟩.  This page was
       obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/iptraf-ng/iptraf-ng.git⟩ on 2024-06-14.  (At
       that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
       the repository was 2022-05-05.)  If you discover any rendering
       problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there
       is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
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       (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       man-pages@man7.org

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