On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:11 pm, Ryan Sims wrote: > On 12/12/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
