Install iftop from source on CentOS

iftop allow you to monitor network traffic like top command. You can download iftop source from

http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/

Before installing, install required packages

yum -y install libpcap libpcap-devel

To install iftop, run

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/download/iftop-0.17.tar.gz
tar xvf iftop-0.17.tar.gz
cd iftop-0.17
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

To run iftop, type

iftop

See iftop