Tcptrack

Install Tcptrack to monitor TCP connections | RHEL/CentOS


Tcptrack is an excellent tool to monitor your server network connections and bandwidth quickly, installation is pretty easy and can be done either via rpm or source.

Install Tcptrack from rpm


Download Tcptrack rpm  from http://packages.sw.be/tcptrack/ by selecting your OS and arch :

Install TCPtrack from source


Download TCPtrack source from :  http://www.rhythm.cx/~steve/devel/tcptrack/release/


  • tar zxvf tcptrack-1.3.0.tar.gz
  • cd tcptrack-1.3.0
  • ./configure ; make & make install

Run ‘ tcptrack -h ‘ to list help menu :

Usage: tcptrack [-dfhvp] [-r <seconds>] -i <interface> [<filter expression>]


TCPtrack can monitor only one nic at once with only one parameter to run (if you have two nic ie.. eth0 & eth1 )

  • # tcptrack -i eth0
  • # tcptrack -i eth1

Tcptrack can also take a pcap filter expression as an argument. The format of this filter expression is the same as that of tcpdump(8) and other libpcap-based sniffers. The following example will only show connections from host 68.36.45.78:

  • # tcptrack -i eth0 src or dst 68.36.45.78

To monitor the specific ports (ie..port 80 and 22):

  • # tcptrack -i eth0 port 80
  • # tcptrack -i eth0 port 22

Tcptrack is little resouce intensive, try to use -f option for fast  average recalculation under less resource usage.

Externel links :

Tcptrack official website :

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