[ale] TOOL: etherape

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 05:44 pm, 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.

This is very cool.  The animation is particularly nice--connections take a 
few seconds to "die diown", so things aren't flashing on and off all the 
time.  I showed it to my network admin and he ran out and installed it.

And I wasn't kidding about demoing this at ALE--this is just the kind of 
thing that i think would be interesting for a 5 minute presentation.

Michael
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