[gentoo-user] Traffic Visualizer

[gentoo-user] Traffic Visualizer

[Timothy A. Holmes]

Several years ago I saw a (unfortunatly windows) program that when
pluggined into a network, would allow the user to visualize traffic
across the network.  In that particular program, the network (or
segment) was represented as a circle with hosts around the perimeter and
lines representing traffic, the thicker the line, the more traffic.

Im not hooked on that particular layout, but im looking for something
similar that will allow me to get a grasp of which hosts are generating
traffic and how much (we are seeing some slowdown problems that I need
to try to locate)

Programs in portage are preferable, but if it will run on gentoo without
too much gymnastics, im interested.

Thanks

TIM


Tim Holmes
IT Manager / Webmaster / Teacher

Medina Christian Academy
A Higher Standard... 


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Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic Visualizer

[Ryan Sims]

On 12/12/06, Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes@mcaschool.net> wrote:
> Several years ago I saw a (unfortunatly windows) program that when
> pluggined into a network, would allow the user to visualize traffic
> across the network.  In that particular program, the network (or
> segment) was represented as a circle with hosts around the perimeter and
> lines representing traffic, the thicker the line, the more traffic.
>
> Im not hooked on that particular layout, but im looking for something
> similar that will allow me to get a grasp of which hosts are generating
> traffic and how much (we are seeing some slowdown problems that I need
> to try to locate)
>
> Programs in portage are preferable, but if it will run on gentoo without
> too much gymnastics, im interested.
>
> Thanks
>
> TIM

I've seen references to Etherape, which does pretty much what you
describe.  I can't speak for its usefulness in a production
environment, being the merest dilletante ;)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic Visualizer

[Quag7]

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:11 pm, Ryan Sims wrote:
> On 12/12/06, Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes@mcaschool.net> wrote:
> > Several years ago I saw a (unfortunatly windows) program that when
> > pluggined into a network, would allow the user to visualize traffic
> > across the network.  In that particular program, the network (or
> > segment) was represented as a circle with hosts around the perimeter and
> > lines representing traffic, the thicker the line, the more traffic.

> I've seen references to Etherape, which does pretty much what you
> describe.  I can't speak for its usefulness in a production
> environment, being the merest dilletante ;)

I run Etherape here.  It is an interesting program to watch, especially when 
you connect to very popular torrents.  Now I run this on my home router, 
which is not a very powerful machine.  Over the course of several days, the 
application slows down to the point that it's taking up quite a lot of CPU 
time and I have to kill X from a ssh session.  The author swears there are no 
memory leaks, but on my system, Etherape has a few problems when left up for 
several days.  My router runs Debian though (because it's an old machine).

http://quag7.dynip.com:8063/wwwswamp/2005-Jul-18__02.28AM_Debian_Linux--Kernel_v2.6.9.20050505c-.jpg

Note the CPU meter on the top - it's the blue one on the left in the system 
monitor.  Nothing else of any consequence is running, so all of that load is 
from that version of Etherape.  Maybe it's been patched since then?  

I was connected to a p2p network of some sort on another system at the time, 
which is why it is so chaotic.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic Visualizer

[Bryce Verdier]

I'd like to throw NTop in the mix.

http://www.ntop.org/overview.html

Not quite what you were looking for, but i think it will be close enough 
that you shouldn't mind the differences. And its in portage.:)

bryce


Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Several years ago I saw a (unfortunatly windows) program that when
> pluggined into a network, would allow the user to visualize traffic
> across the network.  In that particular program, the network (or
> segment) was represented as a circle with hosts around the perimeter and
> lines representing traffic, the thicker the line, the more traffic.
>
> Im not hooked on that particular layout, but im looking for something
> similar that will allow me to get a grasp of which hosts are generating
> traffic and how much (we are seeing some slowdown problems that I need
> to try to locate)
>
> Programs in portage are preferable, but if it will run on gentoo without
> too much gymnastics, im interested.
>
> Thanks
>
> TIM
>
>
> Tim Holmes
> IT Manager / Webmaster / Teacher
>
> Medina Christian Academy
> A Higher Standard... 
>
>
>   

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