Linux bmon network stats

I installed bmon the first time I needed to see what was actually going through a network interface in real time — not just totals, but live throughput per interface. It’s the network equivalent of htop. Much more readable than trying to parse ifconfig output repeatedly.

• bmon

bmon is a portable bandwidth monitor with multiple input methods and output modes. A set of architecture specific input modules provide the core with the list of interfaces and their counters.

$ sudo apt install bmon

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libconfuse-common libconfuse2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bmon libconfuse-common libconfuse2
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded.
Need to get 75.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 241 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

$ bmon