Packet Radar is a realtime network traffic visualization experiment.

It uses pcap to capture packets and displays the information in various ways.

• packet fight viz - visualizes and animates packets transferring between hosts.
• packet stats - a dashboard showing real-time network telemetry like data rates.
• packet top - shows top connections
• packet tail - a simple packet log viwer

This started as a weekend project project for

• playing around with rust
• playing around with understanding packets
• playing around with visualizations, animations and simulations

If you like this, you may also be interested in Space Rader, a disk space visualization app.

Server uses nightly rust, UI is done with Canvas + JS.

### If you need to install rust
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
rustup install nightly
rustup default nightly

### Compile and run
cargo run

### On Linux Kernel >= 2.2
cargo build
sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip target/debug/packet_radar
cargo run

(s/debug/release if --release)

### Or if you require sudo
cargo build
sudo target/debug/packet_radar

(s/debug/release if --release)

open `html/packet_viz.html` in your browser

• Joshua Koo
• Yang Bin Kwok

IDEAs / TODO

• DNS resolution
• Find local addresses
• Whois
• Ping / ICMP Traceroute probes
• TCP/UDP trace probes
• Traffic categorization (UDP, TCP,..
• TLS)
• DNS capture
• RTT Analysis
• Packet replay
• Terminal interface
• Visual traceroute
• Geoip
• TLS Parsing
• Quic Packet Parsing
• Sankey diagrams
• Netstat / Socket listings
• Break connections by processes
• What's my ip whatsmyip
• ASN breakdown