Re: [microsound] traffic analysis

[Eric Falconnier <eric.falconnier@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.
A  very powerful software for this purpose is ethereal :
http://www.ethereal.com/

You can even import some traffic you had previously recorded with tcpdump.

Éric.

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:24:53 -0800, Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > just wondering if anyone has used network traffic, sniffed tcp/ip, 
> > as a music source. I have traffic from a room full of servers flowing
> > through my screen and would like to implement this somehow into a 
> > music project. 
> >
> > capturing and parsing the traffic is easy, and I've thought about
> > assigning a different "instrument" for dumps from each server or
> > client,
> > and allow the aesthetic elements to then be determined by the
> > variations... 
> > perhaps the volume of traffic, or even the type (for smtp traffic, use
> > a
> > certain sound, for dns use something else.) it could be wonderful with
> > just percussion sounds alone. 
>
> this is a particularly interesting suggestion as I'm currently working
> on a sound installation that uses data gathered from web services and
> used in a Max patch...
> q's:
> - what are you using for packet sniffing? tcpdump, snort, etc?
> - what format is this data stored in? xml, mySQL, spreadsheet
> (tab/space delimited text) etc?
> - can you put some of this data on the hotline server for me to look at?
> :)
> KIM
>
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