Traffic

In this post I explain how I launch a network traffic capture (tcpdump) on a remote Linux machine (Pi2 with Gentoo) and have it forwarded to Wireshark running on my computer (Mac). We’ll get tcpdump’s output to become Wireshark’s input. It seems like magic but you’ll see it’s extremely simple. You’ll need to know ssh and sudo, a couple of prerequisites for making this so easy. …

Not long ago I came across PeakHour, a tool that lives in the macOS menu bar with a very pleasant look & feel, capable of visualizing your home network traffic in real time. To achieve this it uses the SNMP protocol — you register all devices that support the protocol and it polls them sequentially, displaying the traffic passing through them. …