IPtraf not looking right on the console..

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Hi Will,

Will McDonald wrote:
> On 01/02/06, WipeOut <wipe_out@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>I have a CentOS 4 server at home where we store all our data, I wanted
>>to get some idea of the amount of traffic going into and out of the
>>server by protocol so I installed IPtraf..
>>
>>When I run it from an ssh session it looks fine but when I run it
>>directly on the server console its doesn't look right at all.. It
>>doesn't seem to layout correctly..
>>
>>Is there something I need to do differently on the console to run it?
> 
> 
> It's probably a terminal type thing. I've noticed in Putty instead of
> getting vertical and horizontal "bars" in the curses interface I get
> xxxxxx and qqqqqqq with l-m-k-j in the corners.
> 
> Running from the console actually displays properly for me.
> 
> There are a bunch of various rendering options within Putty to deal
> with this I think.
> 
> Try each of the following from your terminal/console...
> 
> export TERM=vt100; iptraf
> export TERM=linux; iptraf
> export TERM=xterm; iptraf
> 

Tried all three, no change, still comes out a bit strange..

> You can also increase your console resolution (with care).
> 
> Getting a Hi-Res Console
> 
>  640x480  800x600  1024x768  1280x1024
> 256  0x301  0x303  0x305  0x307
> 32k  0x310  0x313  0x316  0x319
> 64k  0x311  0x314  0x317  0x31A
> 16M  0x312  0x315  0x318  0x31B
> 
>  640x480  800x600  1024x768  1280x1024
> 256  769  771  773  775
> 32k  784  787  790  793
> 64k  785  788  791  794
> 16M  786  789  792  795
> 
> Edit your grub or lilo config and add vga=NNN where NNN is either the
> hex or decimal equivalent to your desired resolution from the tables
> above.
> 
> title White Box Enterprise Linux hi-res (2.6.9-5.0.5.EL)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL ro root=/dev/Vg00/Lv00 vga=773
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL.img
> 

Changing the resolution on the console also didn't make any difference 
but is handy to know.. :)

Would it make any difference that the IPtraf that was installed came 
from DAG's yum repo and not the CentOS repo?

Thanks.

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