How to Install Ostinato Network Traffic Analyzer in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal/10.10?

As a GNU/Linux system administrator or as an experienced user "knowing" advanced information about your network/traffic, etc is one of the most important things concerning security. Although there are various tools which fall into that "category" in GNU/Linux but today I'm going to introduce (well most know about this great little app actually) a utility called Ostinato.

It's written in Qt toolkit and can also be used in Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX as well.


Main features...

*. Supports common network protocols such as - Ethernet/802.3/LLC SNAP, VLAN (with QinQ), IP, ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP.

*. Configure stream rates/ no of packets, etc.

*. Create and configure multiple streams easily.

*. Add new protocol builders using its framework.

*. Supports any text based protocols.

*. Shows real-time/live network status - packet status, sent/receive, etc.

If you use Ubuntu 11.04, then you can install Ostinato by entering the below command in your Terminal.

sudo sh -c ‘echo deb http://widehat.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pstavirs:/ostinato/xUbuntu_11.04/ ./ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/obs-ostinato.sources.list’
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pstavirs:/ostinato/xUbuntu_11.04/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ostinato

For Ubuntu 10.10 users, please use the below command instead.

sudo sh -c ‘echo deb http://widehat.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pstavirs:/ostinato/xUbuntu_10.10/ ./ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/obs-ostinato.sources.list’
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pstavirs:/ostinato/xUbuntu_10.10/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ostinato

For MS Windows and Mac users, please visit this Ostinato home page for downloading.