[Novalug] etherape

Pete Nuwayser nuwayser@gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 17:18:20 EDT 2007


Kevin Dwyer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 02:58:28PM -0400, gregory pryzby wrote:
>   
>> I wanted to look at traffic (in/out) of my box.... what a cool tool.
>>     
>
> Is this better than ethereal (now wireshark) in some way?
>   
How weird this came up today --- I was just talking with a customer 
about etherape about an hour ago.  Celestine Prophecy, anyone?  :-)

Anyway, it's too different from ethereal to make an apples-to-apples 
comparison.  What etherape does is show you a graphical representation 
of LAN traffic in real time.  It spreads discovered hosts around in an 
oval shape and shows the traffic between the nodes in different colors 
depending on protocol type, application type, etc.

My first experience with it was in Red Hat 253 class in 2001.  It was 
very cool to play with, and pretty soon we were flooding each other with 
packets to make everyone's screen turn red (much to the chagrin of the 
instructor).  If a student pissed off another student, the retaliation 
was swift (and red).

Pete




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