[plug] Last nights seminar

[Mike Bryant]

simon wrote:

>Speaking of which , I remember seeing (10 or more years ago) a demostration of
>some software which geographically mapped connections. I think it was in the
>Telstra building  on Stirling (?) St.
>
>I distinctly remember the guy logging into machines at UWA and showed some
>packets bouncing around.....  At one stage he started an ftp get and one of
>the pipes got alot fatter (ie, colour and width showed data flow).
>
>Does anyone know what this software was called? I remember at the time that it
>was still in development.......
>
>  
>
Sounds somewhat like Etherman (originally on SunOS/Solaris) and Etherboy 
(the Windows version). It was developed by some folk out at Curtin 
University. They actually had a suite of tools: Etherman/Etherboy, 
Packetman/Packetboy, Geotraceman and some others I can't remember off 
the top of my head. They wound up selling a suite of four tools for a 
while then moved on to RMON (Network Harmoni I think?) related stuff. I 
think they've since been bought out by another company or some such.

Anyway, thats my poorly remembered and abridged version of those tools. 
They were done sometime around 94/95 I believe.

Mike.