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I discovered lanmap during my stay in a hotel during the Merdeka holidays. This little handy tool can generate local area network map in PNG,SVG and GIF format by listening to network traffic from network interfaces.

lanmap does this by putting network interface in promiscuous mode and representing the data its sees into a 2-d human-readable network graph. It has the advantage of identifying the network traffic being passed around the network along with the name and the operating system of the host which are represented on the graphical representation as well.

My House Local Area Network

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Local Area Network from a Hotel that I stayed in

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lanmap works under Linux, BSD, Windows and OS X operating systems. It requires libpcap library for capturing packets and graphviz visualization library to generate 2-d network graphs.

You can download lanmap from its official website. Lanmap is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.0.

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  4. Jauhari Said:

    Does LanMap have auto installation from synaptic? I use Ubuntu(7.04) too.

    If LanMap have synaptic version, I think if have it will be great.

    Thanks for sharing.

  5. mypapit (Admin) Said:

    lanmap is available from synaptic, through universe repository

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