[clug] Network quality monitor

[Andrew Pollock]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:00:29PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can find heaps of tools that monitor an interface and tell me peak,
> average, total traffic in each direction. But does anyone know of a
> monitor that will track connections and provide information on RTT,
> latency, jitter, packet loss, etc.
> 
> There's stuff like argus and netramet but they seem to be full blown
> auditing tools, whereas all I want is to a have to program to startup
> which just produces statistics on current connections on an interface
> and can ctrl-c when done.
> 
> Any ideas?

I was about to say Argus :-)
It's a bastard to setup and use, just ask the Debian maintainer :-)

iptraf might do what you want, or ntop as someone suggested.

regards

Andrew