Description 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. News Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.19 (Friday, May 15, 2020): This is primarily a bugfix release, but thanks to AlexL adds also a Russian translation. Changes summary: better sizing of connections lines, thanks to Ronald Henderson.

fix for ui crash by "MandatoryField"

fix a crash happening when the capture process wasn't able to set the filter. Thanks to Benjamin Woods for providing a vital backtrace.

russian translation and fixes by AlexL

fix for debian bug #958408 from Bernhard Übelacker Thanks from Patrick Matthäi for sending the patch upstream Bitbucket mirror will disappear on June 1, 2020 Atlassian will remove all Mercurial repositories and support on June 1, 2020. EtherApe mirror Will also removed. The main repository on SourceForge is unaffected and will remain available. Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.18 (Sunday, June 3, 2018): EtherApe now is a pure GTK 3 application, with canvas supplied by GooCanvas. While GooCanvas itself is in maintenance mode, is still the simplest Gnome canvas library available and with an API almost identical to gnome-canvas, too! Longer term, EtherApe ui should be completely redesigned and modernized, but this is for another day. Changes summary: EtherApe ported to GTK3 using GooCanvas instead of the obsolete GnomeCanvas As usual, and thanks to OpenSuse Build Service, prebuilt rpms are available for: Arch Linux

Mageia 6

Fedora 24 to Rawhide

OpenSUSE 13.2, Leap and Tumbleweed/Factory. Experimental RPMS for PPC. Download them at OBS download server Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.17 (Thursday, April 5, 2018): This is a bugfix release, because a bug made 0.9.16 still runtime-dependent on gnomeui and other gnome 2 libraries. Changes summary: EtherApe now requires Gtk 2.24

fixed a bug making libglade load gnome2 libraries

Sometimes node/links windows were freezing. Bitbucket mirror (Saturday, March 10, 2018) For those who prefer a pull-request based workflow, EtherApe now is also on Bitbucket at https://bitbucket.org/bchiara/etherape Main site, bug tracking and file download will remain on SourceForge. Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.16 (Sunday, January 14, 2018): Several distributions are phasing out Gnome 2 libraries and EtherApe needs to update as well.

Unfortunately, this mean dropping support for older distributions, for example CENTOS 5 and 6.

At this time the EtherApe executable can still be built for those distributions, but not the project as a whole. This is an interim release, where the only Gnome 2 component is gnome-canvas. Apart of that, EtherApe is now a GTK2 application.

Work is underway to replace gnome-canvas with another component.

Documentation is now based on yelp-tools instead of Scroolkeeper/Rarian. Many thanks to Patrick Matthäi for packaging EtherApe for Debian and helping to keep this tool current. Changes summary: require only gnome-canvas, not gnome-ui. Based on the work of Arch Linux packager bgyorgy (Balló György). Thanks!

migrate from deprecated gnome-doc-utils to yelp-tools. Unfortunately this change rules out older distributions, documentation-wise.

updated German translation, thanks to Chris Leick As usual, and thanks to OpenSuse Build Service, prebuilt rpms are available for: Arch Linux

Mageia 6

CENTOS 7

Fedora 24, 25, 26 and Rawhide

ScientificLinux 7

SLES 12, 12 SP1 and 12 SP3

OpenSUSE 13.2, Leap 42.1/42.2/42.3 and Tumbleweed/Factory. Experimental RPMS for PPC. All the news...