EtherApe On BackTrack 5

EtherApe

Introduction 

• 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, SLIP and WLAN devices, plus several encapsulation formats. 
• It can filter traffic to be shown, and can read packets from a file as well as live from the network.
• Node statistics can be exported.

How to Open EtterApe 

• Internet > EtherApe (as root)

Before moving forward , see the ip address of these operating system because with the help of these OS , I am going to show some examples . 

OS NAME : BackTrack 5 

Ip Address : 192.168.232.128

OS NAME : Metasploitable 

Ip Address : 192.168.232.129

OS NAME : Windows Xp

Ip Address : 192.168.232.130

EXAMPLE 1 : Ping from Metasploitable to Backtrack 5 

EXAMPLE 2 : Opening Website 

EXAMPLE 3 : Download Nessus Plugin 

• See what happen when we download Nessus Plugin .
• See the below image for more details - 

EtherApe Preferences

• To open Preferences , go to File > Preferences
• In Preferences  ,  you find 3 tabs -

1. Diagram 
2. Color
3. Timings

• Diagram - In Diagram tab , you can do changes in - 

1. Protocol Stack Level
2. Node Size Variable 
3. Size Mode
4. Node Radius Multiplier
5. Link Width 
6. Capture Filter 
7. Node Label Font
8. Node Label Color 

• Color Tab :- In color tab tab , you can -

1. Add Color
2. Remove Color 
3. Change color 
4. Edit color 
5. Assign color 

Timings Tab :- From here you can set the timings .

Mode Selection 

• From here you can select the capturing mode . Different types of mode are - 

1. Token Ring
2. FDDI
3. Ethernet
4. IP
5. TCP

INTERFACE 

• Here you can select your interface .
• For example my interface is eth0.
• See the below image for more help -

VIEW 

• From this tab , you can see -

1. Protocols
2. Nodes
3. Toolbar
4. Legend
5. Statusbar 

Wlan Example 

About EtherApe 

This is the Etherape 0.9.8 

I hope you like  it !