
Using iftop you can identify which host is responsible for slowing down your network.iftop displays the network usage of a specific interface on the host.iftop command displays real-time network bandwidth usage.

top command displays real-time CPU Usage. iftop (interface top) derives the name from the standard unix top command.This article provides an overview of iftop, installation instructions, sample usage example and screenshots of iftop. Iftop output shows the data transfer rate, both for data sent and received, for the past 2 seconds, 10 seconds, and 40 seconds. iftop shows the pair of hosts which is responsible for the most traffic at the top of list, which makes it easier to identify the hosts that causes network congestion. It shows a table of current bandwidth usage by hosts. Monitoring your network is an easy task with iftop.

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