User:Michael j harris

Etherape is a packet sniffer/network traffic monitoring tool, developed for Unix. Etherape is free, open source software developed under the GNU General Public License.

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Functionality
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Network traffic is displayed using a graphical interface. Each node represents a specific host. Links represent connections to hosts. Nodes and links are color coded to represent different protocols forming the various types of traffic on the network. Individual nodes and their connecting links grow and shrink in size with increases and decreases in network traffic.

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History
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Originally authored by Juan Toledo, the first version of Etherape (version 0.0.1) was released on February 18, 2000. The most recent version of Etherape is 0.9.7 and was released on September 30, 2006 <ref name="".

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Features
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Some of the features listed about Etherape include (the following list refers to version 0.9.5 of Etherape):


 * graphical network traffic display
 * color coded node and links for most used protocols
 * traffic may be viewed on one's own network, end to end (IP) or port to port (TCP)
 * a variety of frame and packet types are supported
 * data view can be manipulated using a network filter
 * clicking a node or link provides additional information regarding including protocol and traffic information
 * can read traffic from a file or an actual network

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Security
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Etherape requires root privileges to run. As such, there can be risks to the machine(s) running Etherape when connected to the internet.

In a 2006 survey, Insecure.org named Etherape number 43 on its list of the "Top 100 Network Security Tools ."

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