I installed Darkstat
today, a packet sniffer which runs as a background process and displays its output as a web page
in your browser. It installed with sudo apt-get install darkstat
and gives a warning that it needs to be configured as
part of its installation process. This is done at /etc/darkstat/init.cfg and won’t run until it is configured. Its
started by running 'sudo /etc/init.d/darkstat start' at the terminal window.
And here all of the web pages and man page are wrong! You view the results in your browser by showing
http://localhost:667/ and NOT port 666 like it says in the documentation. When it is running it doesn't show in top
,
and its database doesn't show anywhere by various methods of searching for it!
I feel that it is only slightly useful, but that vnstat
is more useful giving details of your bandwidth usage.
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