On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:04:32AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:22:57PM -0800, Sebastien Delafond wrote: > > * Package name : lanmap > > Version : 0.1 > > Upstream Author : Ryan Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://parseerror.com/lanmap/ > > * License : GPL > > Description : lanmap sits quietly on a network and builds a picture > > of what it sees. > > > > lanmap simply listens to all available traffic on the interface of your > > choice, figures out who's talking to who, and how much and using which > > protocols. From each packet we can usually glean some little hint at > (...) > > This software looks interesting, but very similar to PADS > (http://passive.sourceforge.net/) which is already packaged for Debian. > Besides being able to use Graphviz to generate network "maps" which > differences does it have with Pads?
I find the ability to generate a graphical representation of the harvested data to be indeed lanmap's greatest asset. I don't know of any other program, already packaged for Debian, that does that. Should the similarities between PADS and lanmap prevent the latter from being packaged for Debian ? I understand they both rely on passive network monitoring to produce info, but I still don't see that as an obstacle to packaging lanmap in Debian. I'm of course open to hearing any opinion on this matter :) Cheers, --Seb
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