Today has been slow a slow day at work … so let’s learn about TCPTrack. What is TCPTrack? It can be defined as a passive network sniffer, that monitors an interface for network connections. More specifically it displays source and destination addresses and ports, connection state, idle time, and bandwidth usage, all in real time. Sure, that sounds a lot like netstat, until you get to the real time part. I love tcptrack for those situations where you are looking for a quick overview of current network connections, and don’t want to have to use something as robust as ntop.

On to the goodness ….