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@×××××××××.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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