The Best 5 iftop Alternatives

  • ntop

    NTop is a hybrid layer 2 / layer 3 network monitor, that is by default it uses the layer 2 Media Access Control (MAC) addresses AND the layer 3 tcp/ip addresses. ntop is capable of associating the two, so that ip and non-ip traffic (e.g.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Nethogs

    NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process. NetHogs does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded.

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

  • nload

    nload is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD Solaris