Lanmap

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Lanmap is a utility to generate visual representations of what happens on your network. Lanmap passively listens to traffic to generate an image.

Install

root # emerge lanmap

As lanmap requires access to hardware it must be run as root.

To generate a lanmap that is easily served via www-servers/nginx, www-servers/apache or any other major webserver.

wired:

root # lanmap -i eth0 -T png -o /var/www/localhost/htdocs/

wireless:

root # lanmap -i wlan0 -T png -o /var/www/localhost/htdocs/

The resulting image will be located at http://localhost/lanmap.png & /var/www/localhost/htdocs/lanmap.png

the official documentation suggests using -o /tmp/ to output to /tmp/lanmap.png

as of 06:50, 25 May 2014 (UTC) there are no init scripts or /etc/conf.d configurations to define interfaces & start up.