EtherApe

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Features
As of version 0.9.14, EtherApe as these features, in no particular order:
  • Network traffic is displayed graphically. The more "talkative" a node is, the bigger its representation.
  • Node and link color shows the most used protocol.
  • User may select what level of the protocol stack to concentrate on.
  • You may either look at traffic within your network, end to end IP, or even port to port TCP.
  • Data can be captured "off the wire" from a live network connection, or read from a tcpdump capture file.
  • Live data can be read from ethernet, FDDI, PPP, SLIP and WLAN interfaces, plus several other incapsulated formats (e.g. Linux cooked, PPI).
  • The following frame and packet types are currently supported: ETH_II, 802.2, 803.3, IP, IPv6, ARP, X25L3, REVARP, ATALK, AARP, IPX, VINES, TRAIN, LOOP, VLAN, ICMP, IGMP, GGP, IPIP, TCP, EGP, PUP, UDP, IDP, TP, ROUTING, RSVP, GRE, ESP, AH, EON, VINES, EIGRP, OSPF, ENCAP, PIM, IPCOMP, VRRP; and most TCP and UDP services, like TELNET, FTP, HTTP, POP3, NNTP, NETBIOS, IRC, DOMAIN, SNMP, etc.
  • Data display can be refined using a network filter using pcap syntax.
  • Display averaging and node persistence times are fully configurable.
  • Name resolution is done using standard libc functions, thus supporting DNS, hosts file, etc.
  • Clicking on a node/link opens a detail dialog showing protocol breakdown and other traffic statistics.
  • Protocol summary dialog shows global traffic statistics by protocol.
  • Node summary dialog shows traffic statistics by node.
  • Node statistics export to XML file.
  • A single node can be centered on the display and several user-choosen nodes can be arranged in a inner circle with other nodes around.
  • An alternative display mode arranges nodes in "columns".
  • Scrollkeeper/rarian-compatible manual integrated with yelp.
Developers
Juan Toledo
Original Author
toledo@users.sourceforge.net
Vincent van Adrighem vincent@dirck.mine.nu
Riccardo Ghetta bchiara@users.sourceforge.net
Eran Mann eran@nbase.co.il
Frederic Peters  
Zev Weiss zevweiss@users.sourceforge.net
Contributors
Ben Allen
Bill Barth bbarth <at> users.sourceforge.io
Fabrice Bellet Fabrice.Bellet <at> creatis.insa-lyon.fr
Gôrkem Cetin gorkem <at> gelecek.com.tr
Laurent Deniel deniel <at> worldnet.fr
Lars Eggert
David Flamand dflamand <at> gmail.com
Glenn Feunteun glenn.feunteun <at> orange.com
David Goldfarb
Simon Kirby sim <at> neato.org
Chris Leick c.leick <at> vollbio.de
Pav Lucistnik
Daniel Nylander
Zack Perry
Eric Stewart
Jasper Wallace jasper <at> pointless.net
Ted Wright ted.wright <at> grc.nasa.gov
Dave Yearke yearke <at> eng.buffalo.edu
Licensing
Etherape is Open Source software released under the GNU General Public License.

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