Etherape is a great tool for visualizing your network traffic. What does that mean exactly? Well, It displays all active nodes it can see on your network as little circles which get larger as traffic increases, and also links together nodes that are talking to each other. Colors vary based on protocols being used.
If you’re in a Debian based linux distro (Ubuntu is what I’m running) you can easily get this for yourself by doing the following:
sudo apt-get install etherape
I find this immensly helpful when trying to track down broadcasting fiends or collecting historical data on nodes.
You can configure Etherape to capture IP, TCP or Ethernet and also have it capture on various adapters (i.e. etho, eth1, etc.).
geek out.
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