These options can also be supplied to the command:
-iiface
immediately start the IP traffic monitor on the specified interface, or all interfaces if "-i all"
is specified
-g immediately start the general interface statistics
-diface
allows you to immediately start the detailed on the indicated interface (iface)
-siface
allows you to immediately monitor TCP and UDP traffic on the specified interface (iface)
-ziface
shows packet counts by size on the specified interface
-liface
start the LAN station monitor on the specified interface, or all LAN interfaces if "-l all" is
specified
-ttimeout
tells IPTraf-ng to run the specified facility for only timeout minutes. This option is used only
with one of the above parameters.
-B redirect standard output to /dev/null, closes standard input, and forks the program into the
background. Can be used only with one of the facility invocation parameters above. Send the
backgrounded process a USR2 signal to terminate.
-Llogfile
allows you to specify an alternate log file name. The default log file name is based on either
the interface selected (detailed interface statistics, TCP/UDP service statistics, packet size
breakdown), or the instance of the facility (IP traffic monitor, LAN station monitor). If a path
is not specified, the log file is placed in /var/log/iptraf-ng-f clears all locks and counters, causing this instance of IPTraf-ng to think it's the first one
running. This should only be used to recover from an abnormal termination or system crash.
-h shows a command summary