Developer(s) | Riccardo Ghetta, Juan Toledo |
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Initial release | February 17, 2000 |
Stable release | 0.9.12 / May 31, 2011 |
Development status | Active |
Written in | C |
Operating system | UNIX 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.
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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.
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".[1] The most recent version of EtherApe, authored by Riccardo Ghetta, is 0.9.12 and was released on May 31, 2011.[2].
Some of the features listed about EtherApe include (the following list refers to version 0.9.12 of EtherApe):
EtherApe requires root privileges to run. As such, there can be risks to the machine(s) running EtherApe when connected to the internet.