Biological approach to traffic visualization
Traffic visualization is a very important task, which should allow the network administrator to at a glance assess the picture of network performance, identify important patterns, anomalies and potential security threats. The human brain is much easier to perceive color three-dimensional graphics than long rows of numbers.
In addition, traffic visualization is also a very interesting task from the developer’s point of view. There is a huge field for innovation. A review of existing visualization programs only confirms that the developers have not yet found the ideal solution and continue to experiment, sometimes very exciting.
Packet Garden - perhaps the most original program of its kind. It shows a picture of traffic in the form of "plant world", in which each plant has its own plant ( screenshots ).
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For example, file sharing (ports 10000-10010, 6881, 4662, 4672, 6346, 2240) and IM traffic (5004, 5005, 64064, 20000, 20019, 5000, 5001, 5050, 1863, 6901) correspond to various flowers, games ( Quake3 and Unreal 2004) - bushes, web pages (HTTP: 80) correspond to trees. Additionally, email (IMAP: 143, POP3: 119, 110, 995), secure connections (SSH: 22, HTTPS: 443) and FTP (FTP: 20, 21) are recognized. Everything else (unknown traffic) is portrayed as hills.
In addition, a client program that runs on a PC in the background registers all IP addresses with which the computer connects. These addresses are also displayed on the screen, next to the plants. It is assumed that the program will analyze traffic continuously, so that you can view the “herbarium” for each month. The Packet Garden distribution is distributed in versions for Windows, Linux and MacOS X. This program was created alone by New Zealand programmer Julian Oliver .
By its biological focus Packet Garden is very similar to the work of the Texone Tree applet, which shows the structure of any site (with all web pages) in the form of a tree. For a large site, not even one tree is obtained, but a whole forest.
In addition, traffic visualization is also a very interesting task from the developer’s point of view. There is a huge field for innovation. A review of existing visualization programs only confirms that the developers have not yet found the ideal solution and continue to experiment, sometimes very exciting.
Packet Garden - perhaps the most original program of its kind. It shows a picture of traffic in the form of "plant world", in which each plant has its own plant ( screenshots ).
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For example, file sharing (ports 10000-10010, 6881, 4662, 4672, 6346, 2240) and IM traffic (5004, 5005, 64064, 20000, 20019, 5000, 5001, 5050, 1863, 6901) correspond to various flowers, games ( Quake3 and Unreal 2004) - bushes, web pages (HTTP: 80) correspond to trees. Additionally, email (IMAP: 143, POP3: 119, 110, 995), secure connections (SSH: 22, HTTPS: 443) and FTP (FTP: 20, 21) are recognized. Everything else (unknown traffic) is portrayed as hills.
In addition, a client program that runs on a PC in the background registers all IP addresses with which the computer connects. These addresses are also displayed on the screen, next to the plants. It is assumed that the program will analyze traffic continuously, so that you can view the “herbarium” for each month. The Packet Garden distribution is distributed in versions for Windows, Linux and MacOS X. This program was created alone by New Zealand programmer Julian Oliver .
By its biological focus Packet Garden is very similar to the work of the Texone Tree applet, which shows the structure of any site (with all web pages) in the form of a tree. For a large site, not even one tree is obtained, but a whole forest.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4951/
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