EtherApe

EtherApe

EtherApe GUI
Developer(s) Riccardo Ghetta, Juan Toledo, Zev Weiss
Initial release February 17, 2000 (2000-02-17)
Stable release 0.9.14 / February 6, 2016 (2016-02-06)
Development status Active
Written in C
Operating system GNU/Linux and Unix-like
Available in English
Type Networking
License GNU General Public License
Website http://etherape.sourceforge.net/

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.

Functionality

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.

EtherApe version 0.9.14-1[1] still depends on GConf, GnomeVFS and GTK+ version 2. Sooner or later somebody might port it to dconf, GVfs, D-Bus and GTK+ version 3 or 4.

History

Originally authored by Juan Toledo, the first version of EtherApe (version 0.0.1) was released on February 18, 2000. In a 2006 survey, Insecure.org named EtherApe number 43 on its list of the "Top 100 Network Security Tools".[2] The most recent version of EtherApe, authored by Riccardo Ghetta, is 0.9.14 and was released on February 6, 2016.[3]

Features

Some of the features listed about EtherApe include (the following list refers to version 0.9.14 of EtherApe):

Security

EtherApe requires root privileges to capture packets (but not to replay captured files). As such, there can be risks to the machine(s) running EtherApe when connected to the internet.

See also

References

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