https://github.com/pseudomanifold/ethercurve

Network packet visualization using Hilbert curves
https://github.com/pseudomanifold/ethercurve

c-plus-plus-11 hilbert-curve network pcap visualization

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Network packet visualization using Hilbert curves

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pseudomanifold/ethercurve
• Owner: Pseudomanifold
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-03-20T21:40:54.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-11-06T08:44:46.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-02-28T17:11:05.440Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: c-plus-plus-11, hilbert-curve, network, pcap, visualization
• Language: C++
• Size: 32.2 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# EtherCurve

`EtherCurve` is a tool for visualizing packets on your network. The

packets are drawn using [a space-filling Hilbert

curve](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve). Packets are scaled

by their sizes and coloured using a qualitative colour map that can

easily be customized.

## Requirements

* `cmake` >= 2.8.9 (for building the program)

* `Qt` >= 5.2 (for rendering)

* `libpcap` >= 1.3.0 (older versions should work as well because I am

  not doing anything special here)

## Build instructions

After extracting the source files to a directory, the following should

be sufficient to build `EtherCurve`:

    $ mkdir build

    $ cd build

    $ cmake ../

    $ make

## Usage

`EtherCurve` provides you with a prompt for choosing a network

interface. Provided you do not wish to change any options, a simple

`./ethercurve` suffices to start the tool. See `./ethercurve -h` for

more options.

## Changing the colour scheme

`EtherCurve` can read a text file containing RGB colours. These colours

will be used for packet rendering. The file needs to consist of triples

of integers in the range from 0–255. In addition, the file needs

to have at least 4 lines, as `EtherCurve` currently knows three types of

packets, i.e. TCP, UDP, ICMP, and the rest. The following is a valid

file for `EtherCurve`:

    255,0,0

    0,255,0

    0,0,255

    255,255,255

## Licence

`EtherCurve` is released under the MIT licence. See the file `LICENCE`

in the source directory for details.