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Re: What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

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What can be a reason if on MacOS it does not capture traffic? I see empty panels. Tried to run with and without `sudo`.

yep, on macOS 10.14.6 the command starts but the panes stays empty (silent error) because of SIP "Sandbox: lsof System Policy: deny(1)"

Is there a way to fix this?

Re: What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

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Bad naming.. WHAT(1) BSD General Commands Manual WHAT(1) NAME what -- show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file (MacOS ...)

The author has renamed this project to 'bandwhich'.

Good. Not a beautiful name but distinct, and still captures some of the meaning of the tool.

Re: What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

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I need this for windows.

I used to use Glasswire, however did not like the yearly subscription and limited interface. Now I use NetLimiter 4: https://www.netlimiter.com/ Among other features like process blocking, it has a process list not very different than this utility as well has bandwidth graphing over a period in time which is very useful in tracking down bandwidth hogs on a monthly capped DSL line. https://www.netlimiter.com/docs/netl…

Netlimiter is amazing. Using it for many years. Highly recommended.

Re: What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

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I’m using multiple search engines more and more. Possibly this is due to me usually bypassing google to avoid the ad laden hits. A view with search results from a few sources comes to mind as a solution. Another back burner project.

You can do this with browser search engines, but as a DuckDuckGo user, I can !bang search_term (`!gh`, `!github` to search in github.) Now, I think DuckDuckGo is very lacking in terms of Zero-click searching, but if I know where to get information I can !bang to it (e.g., `!hn what`) or if you're feeling luck `\hn what` will open the first search result. Much better than spending an afternoon setting up search engine…

3 year long user of DDG, never knew about the feeling lucky (\) option.

Re: What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

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post #184

For some reason (possibly security limitations) it doesn't seem to be able to monitor connections over a WireGuard connection's tunX interface.

Hi!

Would you be willing to open an issue in the github repo? I am not aware of this bug and would be very happy to address it.

I would especially be interested if this happens to be the same bug as: https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich/issues/51

Thanks!

Re: What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

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My complaint about the name is that it would be hard to "google" it. This means if I don't bookmark it or remember where I found it, then a couple of years from now when my laptop needs to be rebuilt, I'll have the darndest time finding it to install it again.

I just type in what I’m looking for and “news.ycombinator.com” at the end so that it links to a HN page. Sometimes I have to use site: to make sure it’s actually from HN, but works reasonably well.

with duck duck go you can just write !hn instead.

Re: What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

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Thanks for the tool. Easier install methods would be great. For now I've added the following to my bootstrap makefile: wget -qO- https://github.com/imsnif/what/releases/download/${WHAT_VERSION}/what-v${WHAT_VERSION}-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz | tar xvz -C ~/bin/

Care to share the bootstrap makefile?

https://github.com/owais/dotfiles/blob/master/Makefile

It's a mess and I've not used it for a while (haven't setup a new computer lately) but gets the point across.

Re: What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

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This is the main problem keeping me from using this right now. I don't like installing binaries that conflict with system package names because I'm tin foil about stability and the super small chance that some installation/config script for some other package I rely on references `what` and breaks. @imsnif 2 questions: 1. Any chance you'd be willing to rename the package? I get it if not, but that would be so dope. 2…

1. Done. It's now known as "bandwhich" 2. This is in progress: https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich/issues/9

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Re: What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

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This is the main problem keeping me from using this right now. I don't like installing binaries that conflict with system package names because I'm tin foil about stability and the super small chance that some installation/config script for some other package I rely on references `what` and breaks. @imsnif 2 questions: 1. Any chance you'd be willing to rename the package? I get it if not, but that would be so dope. 2…

1. Done. It's now known as "bandwhich" 2. This is in progress: https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich/issues/9

Left you a thank you video. :-)

https://www.loom.com/share/4a5ca0429da04955b0cde8217aebce12

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