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Is there any linux in built application or any method to find the network usage(data usage) of the internet connection? I know there are many softwares that can be installed into os for this purpose. But I doubt there is a in-built linux tool for this purpose.

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  • Pretty much every tool I know of is a separate userspace program, and hence come as different package that you need to install. But what is your requirement? What difference would it make ? If its just for the lack of internet connection to install, you could always build it in the target machine from source, which you should anyway download from another machine. Complexity might vary. May 3, 2014 at 5:50

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Isn't gnome-system-monitor capable of doing this? You can see in this image, the bottom portion of it shows the network history of your computer :

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  • Oh, sorry, I overlooked that one. :)
    – afagarap
    Sep 19, 2016 at 12:33
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Try sudo apt-get install mbmon xmbmon

Or try other stuff like here

You can try look for GUI interface for all those text apps I don't understand what you mean by in-built linux tool, uh

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AFAIK, there are no inbuild applications as such in the kernel. But there are facilities in the kernel to track/do everything. But doing it on your own will be a tedious task as you will need to do it with a C program. That is what the external applications are doing. Virtually every command you run, is a userspace application.

Link posted by Paul doesnt mention one useful software. If you would like to see which application or process is using the bandwidth, I recommend using nethogs. Get it with sudo apt-get install nethogs

Usage : sudo nethogs -p eth0. Replace eth0 with whatever interface you want to peek into, like wlan0 for wireless.

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  • nethogs too is a simple cmd tool. But I found NTM great..!!! May 5, 2014 at 2:35
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I found the solution finally I think.. Network tools is an inbuilt tool(as I think) which do the purpose well. As well the System Monitor (inbuilt tool) too does great..!!! If u want another tool NTM is great and it is not an in built tool.

You can install ntm with this command

sudo apt-get install ntm

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