 | EtherApeA GNOME/pcap-based etherman, interman, and tcpman clone |
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A GNOME/pcap-based etherman, interman, and tcpman clone EtherApe is a GNOME/pcap-based etherman, interman, and "tcpman" clone. It displays network activity graphically. Active hosts are shown as circles of varying size, and traffic among them is shown as lines of varying width.EtherApe project supports Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, ISDN, PPP, and SLIP. Additional statistics windows will let you concentrate on protocols or nodes.Here are some key features of "EtherApe":· 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 and SLIP interfaces.· 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, IPV6, ROUTING, RSVP, GRE, ESP, AH, ICMPV6, 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.· Display averaging and node persistence times are fully configurable.· Name resolution is done using standard libc functions, thus supporting DNS, hosts file, etc.Requirements:· The libpcap packet capture library, available from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.· GTK+ Version 2 or above is needed.· Libglade 2· Gnome Version 2.0 or above is needed.· The standard resolver library (exact name varies with OS and distribution) What's New in This Release: · Fixed bug 1713590, bad replaying of out-of-order packets (Bug report by "haywire_dk"). · Fixed bug 1435271, about box doesn't report version (Bug report by Cullen Newsom, who had to wait more than three years for this fix). · Fixed bug 2839050, a massive memory leak reported by "psistormyamato". · Fixed a bug causing no-data tcp packets to have incorrect port. · Improved performance in several key areas. · Upgraded to glade-3, removed deprecated widgets and functions, tweaked the looks a bit. · Added --glade-file option to load a different glade file. · Renamed --infile to --replay-file to be more consistent with the shortcut (-r). · Option --zero-delay (-z) is now replaced by --max-delay, receiving a maximum delay in ms between packet when replaying from file. · Revised preferences dialog. Timeouts now expressed in seconds. · Added preference for diagram text color. · Added port column to protocol infos (Feature request 2818525). · Made node name and ip selectable in node/link info (FR 2818525 again). · Preferences dialog now accepts multiple protocols for a color. · Added a node window, showing a table with all non-expired nodes (i.e. both those visible on diagram and the inactive, hidden, but not removed ones). · Removed several outdated preferences: diagram is always anti-aliased, links always fade on timeout and info windows show protocol data. · Revised default timings, now geared toward instant monitoring. Previous values where more suited for mid-term analisys. Since sub-second timeouts aren't very useful, and reading milliseconds less than ideal, all expire periods now are entered in seconds. · Etherape had always the ability to map multiple protocols to a single color, but you had to create multiple rows, manually matching the RGB code. Now the preferences dialog accepts protocols separated by ',' for the same row and also compacts automatically previously distinct rows. You can also change the row color. · The link width slider now controls the link width/node radius ratio, so changing both node and link size will be easier, while retaining the ability to have a links smaller or greater than nodes. · Expanded internal consistency checks. · Info and debug levels are now enabled by defining the environment variable APE_DEBUG with values respectively info or debug (case insensitive).
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