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NAME

       trafshow - full screen show network traffic

SYNOPSIS

       trafshow  [-vpnb]  [-a len] [-c conf] [-i name] [-s str] [-u port] [-R refresh] [-P purge]
       [-F file | expr]

DESCRIPTION

       TrafShow is a simple interactive program that gather the network traffic from all libpcap-
       capable  interfaces  to  accumulate  it in memory cache, and then separately display it on
       appropriated curses window in line-narrowed manner as a list of network  flows  sorted  by
       throughput.  Display  updates  occurs  nearly  in  real time, asynchronously from the data
       collecting. It look like a live show of traffic flows. Any kind  of  network  traffic  are
       mixed together in the one live-show screen, an Ethernet, IP, etc.
       Hint: Please press `H' key inside a show to get brief help!

       The  IP traffic can be aggregated by netmask prefix bits and service ports to reorganize a
       heap of trivial flows into the treelike hierarchies suitable  for  human  perception.  The
       user  can glance over the list of resulting flows and select at their to browse detail. So
       you can deepen into the traffic inheritance hierarchy and  inspect  the  packets  of  each
       trivial flow in variety of presentations: raw-hex, ascii, time-stamp.
       The  program  make  aggregation  automatically  when  number  of  flows  will  exceed some
       reasonable amount. Just a few seconds after launch may be required for adaptation to  your
       volume of traffic.  Use -a len option (see below) to overwrite the default behaviour.

       TrafShow  also  listens on UDP port (9995 by default) for diverse feeders of Cisco Netflow
       and then separately display the collected data in the same manner as described above.  The
       following  versions  of  Netflow  are currently supported: V1, V5, V7.  Use -u port option
       (see below) to overwrite the default behaviour.

       This program may be found wonderful at lest to locate suspicious traffic on the  net  very
       quickly  on  demand, or to evaluate real time traffic bandwidth utilization, in a simplest
       and convenient environment. But it is not intended for  collecting  and  analysis  of  the
       network traffic for a long period of time, nor for billing!

       The program pretend to be IPv6 compatible and ready to using, but it is not tested enough.
       You can define INET6 to do so.

OPTIONS

       -v     Print detailed version information and exit.

       -p     Do not put interface(s) into promiscuous mode.

       -n     Do not convert numeric values to names (host addresses, port numbers,  etc.).   The
              mode can be toggled On/Off during a show by pressing the `N' key.

       -b     To  place a backflow entries near to the main streams in the sorted list of traffic
              flows.
              Note: this mode can raise the system load dangerously high because it take a lot of
              CPU cycles!

       -a len To  aggregate  traffic  flows using IP netmask prefix len. This option also turn on
              service ports aggregation. The len expected  as  number  of  bits  in  the  network
              portion  of  IP addresses (like CIDR).  The aggragation len can be changed during a
              show by pressing the `A' key, and turned Off by empty string.
              Hint: Please use 0 to reduce output just for network services.

       -c conf
              Use alternate color config file instead of default /etc/trafshow.

       -i name
              Listen on the specified network interface name.  If unspecified,  TrafShow  collect
              data from all network interfaces, configured UP in the system. In the last case the
              system must supply enough number of packet capture devices (like /dev/bpf#).

       -s str To search and follow for list item matched by string, moving the  cursor  bar.  The
              found  item  try  to  stay  highlighted. The mode can be turned Off by `Ctrl-/' key
              press or [re]entered again by `/' key directly in the live show.

       -u port
              Listen on the specified UDP port number for the Cisco Netflow  feed.   The  default
              port number is 9995.
              Hint: Please use 0 to disable this functionality.

       -R refresh
              Set  the  refresh period of data show to seconds, 2 seconds by default. This option
              can be changed during a show by pressing the `R' key.

       -P purge
              Set the expired data purge period to seconds, 10 seconds by  default.  This  option
              can be changed during a show by pressing the `P' key.

       -F file
              Use file as input for the filter expression.

       expr   Select  which  packets will be displayed. If no expression is given, all packets on
              the net will be displayed. Otherwise, only packets for which expression  is  `true'
              will be displayed.
              The  filter  expression  can  be changed during a show by pressing the `F' key, and
              turned Off by empty string.
              Please see tcpdump(1) man page for syntax of filter expression.

FILES

       /etc/trafshow
              The default colors configuration file if any.

       $HOME/.trafshow
              The personal file with the user defined colors.

COLORS

       If TrafShow has been compiled with modern curses libraries such as  Slang  or  Ncurses  it
       been  able  to  show  colored traffic on the color-capable terminal. Hopefully, no special
       actions required to install them because your system has it  by  default  (leastwise  last
       years).

       The syntax of TrafShow color configuration file as follow:

       default fcolor:bcolor
              Set the default screen background color-pair

       port[/proto] fcolor:bcolor
              Set color pattern by service port

       [proto] src[/mask][,port] dst[/mask][,port] fcolor:bcolor
              Set color pattern by pair of source and destination addresses

       The tokens *, any, or all matchs ANY in the pattern.  Where fcolor is foreground color and
       bcolor is background color.
       The fcolor and bcolor may be one of the following:

       black red green yellow blue magenta cyan white
              It posible to indicate color as number from 0 to 7.

       The upper-case Fcolor mean bright on.  The upper-case Bcolor mean blink on.

SEE ALSO

       pcap(3), tcpdump(1), bpf(4)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Thanks    to    Van    Jacobson    <van(at)helios.ee.lbl.gov>    and    Steven     McCanne
       <mccanne(at)helios.ee.lbl.gov>,   all  of  Lawrence  Berkeley  Laboratory,  University  of
       California, Berkeley.  Special thank to Jun-ichiro  itojun  Hagino  <itojun(at)iijlab.net>
       for IPv6 patches.

AUTHOR

       Vladimir Vorobyev <bob(at)turbo.nsk.su>.

BUGS

       Depending of traffic volume, TrafShow can take a lot of CPU cycles and memory.
       It is impossible to use packet matching expressions in the NetFlow mode.

                                             May 2004                                 TRAFSHOW(1)