Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bpfmon on CentOS 8.
What is bpfmon
While tcpdump shows what packets are going through the network, bpfmon will show how much in terms of bytes per second and packets per second in a nice pseudo-graphical terminal interface. bpfmon also supports monitoring an iptables rule that is selected by command line option or selected from a menu.
We can use yum or dnf to install bpfmon on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bpfmon.
Install bpfmon on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bpfmon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bpfmon
Install bpfmon on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bpfmon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bpfmon
How To Uninstall bpfmon on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bpfmon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bpfmon
bpfmon Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/2bcd65931c2f12e68e3ef9f9b25f45a64fdf8c
/usr/sbin/bpfmon
/usr/share/licenses/bpfmon
/usr/share/licenses/bpfmon/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/bpfmon.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bpfmon on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
