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There are cases where you want to monitor a specific type of connection going from/to & through your router. As an example the following example keeps track of DNS requests towards name servers.
watch -tn5 “conntrack -L -p udp –dport 53 | sort -nrk3; echo; conntrack -L -p tcp –dport 53 | sort -nrk3”