IPTraf

The other package we will be installing is called IPTraf, which is short for IP Traffic Monitor. This is a terminal-based program that monitors traffic on any of the interfaces connected to your network or the BeagleBone.

Once again, we save the tar ball to the /usr/src directory and then unzip it to a directory:

1. First we get the tarball from the source website:

   wget https://fedorahosted.org/releases/i/p/iptraf-ng/iptraf-ng-1.1.4.tar.gz
   

2. Then, we untar it into a directory:

   tar –xzfv iptraf-ng-1.1.4.tar.gz
   

3. We then change to the iptraf-ng-1.1.4 directory, which was created previously.

4. Type the following commands to compile the source code:

   ./configure
   make
   make install
   

   That's it we're done!

Note

One final note; file locations can be a moving target so if the preceding wget command doesn't work, a Google search should provide another location. The command is the same, but with a different web address.

Configuring IPTraf

Perform the following steps for configuring IPTraf:

1. We run the program by...