Monitoring network status

In this recipe, we are going to show how to monitor the status of network interfaces.

Getting ready

The commands used in this recipe have been performed on a CentOS Linux machine. The command output may vary in other Linux and Unix-based operating systems.

How to do it...

We are going to use the netstat command with the -i switch to display the status of network interfaces that are configured on the system. The following is the usage of the netstat command:

How to do it...

How it works...

In the preceding output of the netstat -i command, we can determine the number of packets a system transmits and receives on each network interface. The ...

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