How To Install bpfmon on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bpfmon
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bpfmon.
Install bpfmon on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install bpfmon
using yum
by running the following command:
Install bpfmon on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install bpfmon
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall bpfmon on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the bpfmon
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bpfmon
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.