Monitor your network with iptraf

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Monitor your network with iptraf

I am always looking for a good network monitor, and there are plenty out there. But in all my years of searching I have yet to come across a monitor as good as the tried and true iptraf. The iptraf network monitor is an ncurses-based IP LAN monitor (so it's text-based) that is interactive and generates network statistics such as: TCP info, UDP counts, ICMP and OSPF information, Ethernet load info, node stats, IP checksum errors, and more.
Now, the only issue with iptraf is that it is old. It hasn't been updated since 2005 (as far as I can see). But being old doesn't mean it isn't useful. The iptraf tool still installs, still runs, and is just as useful as it was when it was still in active development. And because iptraf is still a useful tool, I thought I would show how it is installed and used on a modern Linux distribution.
 
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