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@@ -13,20 +13,20 @@ flowtop \- top-like netfilter TCP/UDP/SCTP/DCCP/ICMP(v6) flow tracking .SH DESCRIPTION flowtop is a top-like connection tracking tool that can run on an end host or -small home router. It is able to present TCP, UDP/UDP-lite, SCTP, DCCP, ICMP(v6) -flows that have been collected by the kernel's netfilter connection tracking -framework, thus no packet capturing in user space needs to be done. +small home router. It is able to present TCP, UDP/UDP-lite, SCTP, DCCP, and +ICMP(v6) flows that have been collected by the kernel's netfilter connection +tracking framework, thus no packet capturing in user space needs to be done. flowtop is able to give you a quick overview of current connections on your local system, e.g. for debugging purposes or to answer questions like: * If you access website X, what other connections are being opened in -the background that I'm not aware of? - * What connections are active that pass ones router? - * I have this proprietary binary Y, where does it connect to? - * To which countries am I sending my data? + the background that I'm not aware of? + * What connections are active that pass one's router? + * I have this proprietary binary Y, to where does it connect? + * To which countries am I sending data? * Are there any suspicious background connections on my machine? - * How many connections has binary Z currently active? + * How many active connections does binary Y have? The following information will be presented in flowtop's output: @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ In order for flowtop to work, netfilter/iptables must be active resp. running on your machine, thus kernel-side connection tracking is active. flowtop's intention is just to get a quick look over your active connections. -If you want to have logging, have a look at netfilter's conntrack(8) tools +If you want logging support, have a look at netfilter's conntrack(8) tools instead. .SH OPTIONS @@ -93,22 +93,22 @@ Show user help. Default ncurses output for flowtop that tracks IPv4, IPv6 flows for TCP. .SS flowtop -46UTDISs -This example enables maximum display options for flowtop. +This example enables the maximum display options for flowtop. .SH CONFIG FILES -Under /etc/netsniff-ng/ there are the following files stored that are used -by flowtop and can be extended if wished: +Files under /etc/netsniff-ng/ can be modified to extend flowtop's +service resolution and lookup information. * tcp.conf - TCP port/services map * udp.conf - UDP port/services map * geoip.conf - GeoIP database mirrors .SH BUGS -During fairly high till high connection tracking updates, flowtop's scrolling -can become shortly unresponsive. The right fix would be to replace flowtop's -connection management backend with a better design resp. locking approach. -Still on todo. +With a fairly high rate of connection tracking updates, flowtop can become +unresponsive for short periods of time while scrolling. The right fix would +be to replace flowtop's connection management backend with a better design +resp. locking approach. Still on todo. .SH LEGAL flowtop is licensed under the GNU GPL version 2.0. |