Bug #7925

Explain how to monitor the network traffic

Added by sajolida 2014-09-21 12:37:35 . Updated 2015-07-24 04:05:59 .

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Rejected
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Low
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Start date:
2014-09-21
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0%

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End-user documentation
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Description

That was a pretty frequent topic on the old forum:

  • Connections blocked by the firewall appear in `sudo dmesg`.
  • From inside Tails it is possible to run `netstat` and `tcpdump`.
  • Wireshark

We can probably find an external documentation about doing all that on Linux…

Mention that Tor can generate network activity (and make switches blink) even when no client application is active.

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History

#1 Updated by sajolida 2014-09-21 12:49:18

  • Description updated

#2 Updated by sajolida 2014-09-21 12:50:16

  • Description updated

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2014-09-22 08:03:14

I think this FAQ also needs to point to good basic documentation about networking, TCP/IP in general, and firewalling on Linux: those who are already knowledgeable in this area also generally know netstat and friends, so this FAQ seems to be aimed at people who don’t know these tools yet, and also wouldn’t know how to understand their output either.

#4 Updated by BitingBird 2015-01-03 00:16:45

I think explanations about network monitoring don’t go in the FAQ, but in Advanced Topics. Still, it needs to be written anyway :)

#5 Updated by sajolida 2015-01-03 18:17:06

  • Subject changed from FAQ: Explain how to monitor the network traffic to Explain how to monitor the network traffic
  • Category deleted (208)
  • Priority changed from Normal to Low
  • Yes, this doesn’t fit in the FAQ (unless we only point to an external documentation).
  • This is low priority: I don’t see us working on this ourselves any time soon.

#6 Updated by BitingBird 2015-07-24 04:05:59

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Rejected

Not our work to teach networking.