How To Install bpfmon on Fedora 34

bpfmon is Traffic monitor for BPF expression/iptables rule

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bpfmon on Fedora 34.

What is `bpfmon`

While tcpdump shows what packets are going through the network, bpfmon will show how much in terms of bytes per second and packets per second in a nice pseudo-graphical terminal interface. bpfmon also supports monitoring an iptables rule that is selected by command line option or selected from a menu.

We can use yum or dnf to install bpfmon on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bpfmon.

Install bpfmon on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install bpfmon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bpfmon

Install bpfmon on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install bpfmon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bpfmon

How To Uninstall bpfmon on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the bpfmon package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bpfmon

bpfmon Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/fbd784b4bb32b1725c39d79fb6b5caaa20c494
/usr/sbin/bpfmon
/usr/share/licenses/bpfmon
/usr/share/licenses/bpfmon/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/bpfmon.8.gz

References

bpfmon website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bpfmon on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.