[ale] TOOL: etherape

[Jonathan Glass]

I run this on my client's firewalls, and whenever they have
people/applications taking all the bandwidth, I fire it up and track
down the culprit.  This tool has saved me hundreds of hours in network
troubleshooting.

Jonathan

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 09:15, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> 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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