darkstat is an ntop-workalike network statistics gatherer. It runs as a background process on a cable or DSL router, uses libpcap to capture network traffic, and has a Web interface that serves up reports of statistics such as data transferred by host, port, and protocol. It also has a neat bandwidth usage graph.
| Tags | Networking Monitoring |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release added support for IPv6, binding to multiple addresses, sorting by last seen time, saving of state without resetting it, and use of relative URLs for easier mod_proxying.


Release Notes: A packet capture problem affecting recent Linux kernels, capture statistics, and crashing on interface down were fixed. Logging to syslog, support for DLT_RAW links, and a hack to help NetworkManager users were implemented.


Release Notes: Improvements have been made to the Web interface, compatibility with MSIE 7, and integration with launchd on Mac OS X.


Release Notes: This release adds more options to limit memory use.


Release Notes: Statistics can now be saved on shutdown, reloaded on startup, and cleared at runtime. More settings can be configured on the command line. Daily traffic statistics can be logged to a text file. The program can now manage its own pidfile.