EtherApe is a graphical network monitor for
Unix modeled after etherman. Featuring link layer, ip and TCP modes, it
displays network activity graphically. Hosts and links change in size
with traffic. Color coded protocols display.
It supports Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, ISDN, PPP and SLIP devices. It
can filter traffic to be shown, and can read traffic from a file as
well as live from the network.
News
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.6 (Tuesday May 16 2006):
Some distributions had trouble linking correctly EtherApe.
This release should fix that.
Changes summary:
On newer distros (like FC5) the linker was called without
--export-dynamic, making EtherApe unusable.
Fixed bug 1488215, "cancel" button on preferences dialog
doesn't work.
Updated .desktop and .spec files
Updated debian files. Thanks to F.Peters (debian
maintainer).
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.5
(Saturday May 6 2006):
After the recent changes the manual was
really obsolete.
This
release features a completely rewritten one, properly integrated with
the Gnome help browser. You'll find EtherApe under Applications -
System tools.
Changes summary:
Manual completely rewritten with
docbook-XML. Now registers
with scrollkeeper.
Thanks to Jeffrey G. Gomberg, who had
the patience to test
and
identify problems, this release features improved OSX support.
Thanks to Ben Allen, added a new
opzion, 'zero-delay' (-z)
to
play captured files without accounting for timestamp. Usually
EtherApe uses the timestamp to playback packets as they came in when
recording. This option essentially disables this, making as if all
packets came in at once.
As Ben said 'It provides a QUICK way to generate a graph of all of the
conversations in a capture file, without having to wait the length of
the capture. This is helpful for visualizing data from long (hours to
days) captures'.
Fixed a bug preventing conversations
to expire properly.
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.4
(Saturday Jan 14 2006):
This release comes after a first round
of extensive
refactoring, needed to clean up some of the cruft accumulated during
the years and make further developments easier. While still a work in
progress, memory control is tighter and protocol dissectors more
robust.
EtherApe calculates an extensive set of
traffic statistics,
even if only a small part is always visible on the diagram.
For example, every node and link maintains complete data for
every protocol seen, even if only the most active is displayed.
Thus, the detail dialogs now show also traffic breakdown by
protocol.
Changes summary:
New feature: link info dialog.
Double-clicking on a link
shows traffic and protocol
statistics.
New feature: improved node info
dialog now displays both
traffic and protocol statistics.
New feature: protocol aging. Now
protocols, like nodes and
links, can expire and be purged automatically.
Heavy refactoring to make sources
easier to understand and
maintain.
Small performance enhancements due to
refactoring.
Better memory handling due to
refactoring.
Unified handling of traffic
statistics.
Rewritten interface listing. Now uses
directly
pcap_findalldevs to list interfaces available for capturing. The
interface submenu now list also the "any" device, if present. The older
method is deprecated (at the moment it can be enabled with a #define)
and will be removed in a future release. If someone needs it, please
file a feature request.
Tidied up preferences dialog,
removing unneeded entries.
Rewritten and improved node/link
timeout handling.
Fixes bug 1362426 (i8n issues).
Thanks to Daniel Nylander
for hunting down that and providing a detailed example.
Fixes bug 1385105 (crash with double
free). Thanks to
goga_russian for the segnalation.
Fixes bug 1372245 (crashes when node
goes too big). Thanks
to goga_russing for the segnalation.
Fixes bug 1396236 ("force numeric"
and "dns resolution"
checkboxes not working).
Fixes bug 1268291 (OSX net/if.h).
Thanks to Eric Stewart
for the patch.
Legend labels now align to left.
Fixed a bug when closing the
preferences dialog.
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.3
(Thursday 8-18-2005):
Fixes bug 1083524 (deletion of all
user colors)
Fixes bug 1024944 (compilation on
OSX). Thanks to
Lars Eggert for the patch.
Fixes a bug with the legend handling
(beware: on later
gnomes the legend could behave strangely if you use a binary package
built for an older gnome release)
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.2
(Saturday 8-13-2005):
New multithreaded name resolution
using the standard resolver api. Works with dns, /etc/host, ...
Note: The multithreaded resolver
needs gethostbyaddr_r(). If your distribution doesn't have it, you're
forced to use the old resolver.
Small fixes for gcc 4
cvs cleanup
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.1
(Wednesday 8-11-2004):
