Packages and Binaries:

darkstat

It is a packet sniffer which runs as a background process and serves its statistics to a web browser:

  • input and output IP traffic by machines, ports and protocols,
  • last minute, hourly, daily and monthly global input and output graphics.

It is known to be smaller (in terms of memory footprint) and stabler than ntop.

Installed size: 172 KB
How to install: sudo apt install darkstat

Dependencies:
  • debconf | debconf-2.0
  • libc6
  • libpcap0.8t64
  • lsb-base
  • zlib1g
darkstat

Network statistics gatherer

root@kali:~# darkstat --help
darkstat 3.0.719 (using libpcap version 1.10.4 (with TPACKET_V3))

usage: darkstat [ -i interface ]
                [ -f filter ]
                [ -r capfile ]
                [ -p port ]
                [ -b bindaddr ]
                [ -l network/netmask ]
                [ --base path ]
                [ --local-only ]
                [ --snaplen bytes ]
                [ --pppoe ]
                [ --syslog ]
                [ --verbose ]
                [ --no-daemon ]
                [ --no-promisc ]
                [ --no-dns ]
                [ --no-macs ]
                [ --no-lastseen ]
                [ --chroot dir ]
                [ --user username ]
                [ --daylog filename ]
                [ --import filename ]
                [ --export filename ]
                [ --pidfile filename ]
                [ --hosts-max count ]
                [ --hosts-keep count ]
                [ --ports-max count ]
                [ --ports-keep count ]
                [ --highest-port port ]
                [ --wait secs ]
                [ --hexdump ]
                [ --version ]
                [ --help ]

Please refer to the darkstat(8) manual page for further
documentation and usage examples.

Updated on: 2024-May-23