How To Install ipband on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
2 minutes • 391 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipband on Ubuntu.
What is ipband
ipband is:
This is a daemon which can monitor as many different subnets (or individual hosts, by specifying a “subnet” of /32) as you’d like. The reporting facility will only be triggered when a defined bandwidth level had been exceeded for a defined time.
Information reported includes the connections which are taking up the most bandwidth (ip address and port pairs). Reporting is done via email.
There are three methods to install ipband on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ipband Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ipband using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ipband
Install ipband Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ipband using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ipband
Install ipband Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ipband using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ipband
How To Uninstall ipband on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the ipband package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ipband
Uninstall ipband And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ipband and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ipband
Remove ipband Configurations and Data
To remove ipband configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ipband
Remove ipband configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ipband configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ipband
Dependencies
ipband have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipband package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.