FreshMacApps GeekTool Script Vault

Geeklet To Display Top Network Connections

This addition to the GeekTool Script Vault is a geeklet to display the top four network connections to your Mac. This script incorporates the netstat Unix command and is useful for seeing what’s hogging your bandwidth. 

 

To use this geeklet, open up GeekTool and drag a shell geeklet to your desktop. Once you have done that, enter the following code into the Command input field:

netstat -at | head -6

Sample Output:

Active Internet connections (including servers)

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address            Foreign Address        (state)    

proto       0      0  your-host.location.65940  z655-gat12s3-t.http    CLOSE_WAIT 

proto       0      0  your-host.location.84034  ja3-t46-rr212-8.http    CLOSE_WAIT 

proto       0      0  your-host.location.35163  qu33s42-on-ti2.http    ESTABLISHED

proto       0      0  your-host.location.98631  813.50-169.5gefs.tp    ESTABLISHED

Set the refresh to a reasonable rate, so as not to strain your system with constant requests for updates.

Last updated by FreshMacApps at January 21, 2013.