identify application causing network traffic

maenho · 03-03-2005, 05:17 AM

I was wondering if anybody knows of an application that allows me to see which application or daemon is causing network traffic from and/or to my Linux box. You can use tcpdump to view the traffic but it does not allow me to see which process is opening these ports and generates and/or receives the traffic.

thank you

Brian Knoblauch · 03-03-2005, 06:39 AM

Once you get the port via tcpdump, you can use netstat to see what's bound to the port (netstat -a).

maenho · 03-03-2005, 09:24 AM

indeed that is exactly what I was looking for

thank you