TcpView For Linux VS SmokePing

TcpView For Linux Reviews

SmokePing Reviews

1. Stan    

   Founder at SaaSHub | almost 2 years ago
   Such a helpful tool

   Smokeping used to be one of my favourity tools when I was working as a SysAdmin long time ago. It's offers such a clever way of presenting the data, that it is super easy to identify any issues.

   I still wonder why modern tools haven't adopted this ingenious technique.

   👍 Pros:    Usability

   👎 Cons:    Not actively maintained

TcpView For Linux mentions (4)

• simple app for monitoring server log?

  For watching connections as they happen with a GUI there's https://github.com/chipmunk-sm/tcpview . Similar to the Windows SysInternals TCPView app. It's quite simple to use. Source: 10 months ago

• I love Mint XFCE!

  Rn, I'm working on ditching Microsoft's spyware OS for good. I'm amazed how when I run TCPView, the system is silent on the network; Windows 10 talks to every Tom, Dick and Harry. Most open-source apps on my Linux system (OnlyOffice --> better MS Office compatibility for school, GIMP, Kdenlive) are also silent too. The only one I found chattering was VS Code lol. Working on Firejailing that bad boy... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Can you recommend any tool for packet sniffing with the ability to filter traffic by processes?

  That's not how packet sniffing works ... That said, you can correlate your packet sniffing with host analysis software like sysinternals tcpview in windows or a similar piece of software in linux https://github.com/chipmunk-sm/tcpview. Source: over 2 years ago

• Fire-wall question - adding rules

  Also I recommend this tool if you want an easy to use port activity https://github.com/chipmunk-sm/tcpview. Source: about 3 years ago

SmokePing mentions (27)

• Anyone else using unifi to track the isp outages?

  I'd recommend setting up SmokePing or Vaping to get a better idea of latency and connectivity. Source: 11 months ago

• N-Central, Connectivity Service and 15 minute minimums, oh my!

  Let me introduce you to a rather old, but still highly useful, tool for free. Takes a little leg work to get going, but pays off in style. https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/. Source: 11 months ago

• Is there any way to fix packet loss!?

  So I would run Smoke Ping (https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/) for a while to get an idea of the loss. If it really is an external issue, you can try a VPN to hopefully pickup a different route. Source: 11 months ago

• lightweight monitoring tool

  I personally like smokeping, https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ . Has lots of different probes so you can do more than just "ping if it is alive". Source: about 1 year ago

• Cox Monitoring -- something changed around 9:30 last night

  I previously made a post asking for some ping results for various people in the area. Thank you to everyone who replied. Some of the comments encouraged me to set up a more proper monitoring system for keeping track of latencies to various servers, and to consider more than just ICMP ping as said packets are likely deprioritized. I set up an instance of SmokePing and have it monitoring a number of services, as... Source: about 1 year ago