Real time traffic overview

[Luca Ferrari]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Trond Endrestøl
<Trond.Endrestol at fagskolen.gjovik.no> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:18+0100, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
>
>>    Running my server on FreeBSD 9.2 in the DMZ, I would like to know if
>>    there is a program / graphical user interface on which I _real_time_
>>    can see  what kind of traffic is entering my server (ports)? Running
>>    ipfw but that is more statical / once a day list overview.
>
> Unless you also need to monitor IPv6 traffic, have a look at
> net-mgmt/iftop.

Based on my personal experience, spend a little more time configuring
a flow analysis system (flowtools). It will give you the capability to
analyze traffic offline.
For the online/real time part use ethereal or wireshark or something alike.

Luca