Source: connmon
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Oskar Liljeblad <oskar@osk.mine.nu>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)
Standards-Version: 3.5.2

Package: connmon
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: A console connection and bandwidth monitoring program
 Connection Monitor is a connection and bandwidth monitoring program
 with a console-based user interface. It displays a list of open TCP
 and UDP connections with transfer rate (in bytes per second) for each
 connection. 
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 The transfer rates display requires a Linux 2.4 kernel with Netfilter
 connection tracking facilities, with a small (included) patch applied.
 ConnMon will still work with kernels (2.2 or 2.4) without this patch.
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 Communication with the kernel is done through /proc/net/ip_conntrack.
 This file is read a few times a second. (The kernel patch extends this
 file to contain packet- and byte-count information for each connection,
 which makes monitoring of transfer rates possible.) Because of this,
 ConnMon is well suited for systems with fewer (1000 or less) simultaneous
 connections. Unlike similar programs such as IPTraf, ConnMon's use of
 CPU-time does not increase when the total transfer rate increases.
 .
 As of version 0.9.0, ConnMon also supports connection monitoring on
 2.2 (and possibly earlier) kernels. This is done through the
 /proc/net/tcp and /proc/net/udp files. See the documentation in
 /usr/share/doc/connmon on how to use this.
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 ConnMon uses the GNU adns library to make asynchronous DNS lookups.
