Bicimon is a command-line tool used for monitoring network traffic in real-time. It is an open-source project available on GitHub. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Bicimon on FreeBSD Latest.
Before starting the installation process, make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed:
To install Git and GCC on FreeBSD, open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo pkg install git gcc
Next, we need to clone the Bicimon repository from GitHub. To do this, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/knrdl/bicimon.git
Before installing Bicimon, we need to install some dependencies. To do this, run the following commands:
cd bicimon
sudo pkg install libpcap
sudo make install-dep
Finally, we can build and install Bicimon by running the following command:
sudo make install
This will compile and install the Bicimon binary to the /usr/local/bin directory.
To verify that Bicimon has been installed correctly, run the following command:
sudo bicimon -i [INTERFACE_NAME]
Replace [INTERFACE_NAME] with the name of the network interface you want to monitor. If Bicimon starts monitoring traffic without errors, then the installation was successful.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Bicimon on FreeBSD Latest. You can now use this powerful tool to monitor your network traffic in real-time.
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