How to output a simple network activity plot in console in Linux?
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There's tload that plots load average.
There's iftop that network usage as bars.
How to do something like this:
# tcpdump -i eth0 --plot 'host 1.2.3.4'
13:45:03 | | 0 in 0 out
13:45:04 |O | 0 in 1MB out
13:45:05 |OOOI | 500 KB in 4MB out
13:45:06 |OIIII | 6MB in 1MB out
13:45:07 | | 0 in 0 out
13:45:08 |IIIIIIIIIIII | 53M in 0 out
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