[ale] TOOL: etherape

[Jeff Hubbs]

Wow, neat - SGI had something like that circa 1991 - I think it was
called NetVisualizer.

- Jeff

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 17:44, John Wells wrote:
> ok, TOOL: it is.
> 
> i've been playing around with etherape (http://etherape.sourceforge.net)
> for the last few hours.  It's a cool little utility that lays out
> hostnames on a canvas and draws lines (or shapes...configurable) between
> hosts dynamically as traffic is routed between them.  It also color codes
> the lines based on the protocol in use.  The lines widen as bandwidth
> increases.
> 
> Useful if you're wanting an easy-to-grasp look at what your nic is doing. 
> Uses libpcap for the sniffing.  Site has screenshots here
> (http://etherape.sourceforge.net/images/).  Have fun.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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