systat will show you most of what pftop does, no package necessary.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/systat.1?query=systat&sec=1

Brian Conway

On Dec 31, 2015 2:30 PM, "Mark Carroll" <m...@ixod.org> wrote:

> I was wondering recently what the biggest bandwidth hogs were on my home
> network at a certain moment. On Linux I use iftop on the router for
> this, but I wonder in OpenBSD if, rather than install the iftop package,
> there's something different -- more OpenBSD-ish -- I should be doing
> with clients to pflow or whatever to achieve this same near-instanteous
> view of machines' Internet usage across the router (which NATs them from
> their LAN).
>
> Lately I've been reading about CARP and discovering that the packet
> filter code has all kinds of cool stuff built in for transparent
> load-balancing and failover. And, I like the keep-state stuff that lets
> me do things like rate-limit ssh connections. So, I'm thinking that PF
> may offer me all manner of wonders. So, I got to thinking today:
>
> I wondered about my kids' use of YouTube and suchlike, and I wondered if
> there's a good way of using PF on the router to give them a weekly
> download limit, perhaps cumulative over their devices, after which it
> gets limited to a slow crawl or even cut off. Is this (or some variant
> thereof) something that PF makes easy (any pointers?), or is tricky but
> clearly described in the latest Book of PF, or just not worth the effort
> of attempting -- any thoughts? I may have just picked the wrong web
> search terms, or maybe this just isn't yet at all easy.
>
> (... and Happy New Year!)
>
> -- Mark

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