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Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work? Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange. The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection: Every Byte Explained. Wireless Report. 18 commands to monitor network bandwidth on Linux server – BinaryTides. Network monitoring on Linux This post mentions some linux command line tools that can be used to monitor the network usage.

These tools monitor the traffic flowing through network interfaces and measure the speed at which data is currently being transferred. Incoming and outgoing traffic is shown separately. Some of the commands, show the bandwidth used by individual processes. This makes it easy to detect a process that is overusing network bandwidth. The tools have different mechanisms of generating the traffic report. Here is a list of the commands, sorted by their features. 1. 1. Nload is a commandline tool that allows users to monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic separately. So if you just need to take a quick look at the total bandwidth usage without details of individual processes, then nload will be handy. $ nload Installing Nload - Fedora and Ubuntu have got it in the default repos. . # fedora or centos $ yum install nload -y # ubuntu/debian $ sudo apt-get install nload 2. iftop.