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Published inDec 2013
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William Pretty
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Bill Pretty began his career in electronics in the early 80s with a small telecom start-up company that would eventually become a large multinational. He left this company to pursue a career in commercial aviation in northern Canada. Next, he joined the Ontario Center for Microelectronics, a provincially funded research and development center. Bill left this for a career in the military as a civilian contractor at what was then called Defense Research Establishment Ottawa. Thus began a career that was to span the next 25 years and continues until today. Over the years, Bill acquired extensive knowledge in the field of technical security and started his own company in 2010. This company is called William Pretty Security Inc. and provides support in the form of research and development to various law enforcement and private security agencies. Bill has published and presented a number of white papers on the subject of technical security. For a number of years, he was also a guest presenter at the Western Canada Technical Conference, a law enforcement-only conference held every year in western Canada. A selection of these papers is available for download from his website.
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IPTraf


The other package we will be installing is called IPTraf, which is short for IP Traffic Monitor. This is a terminal-based program that monitors traffic on any of the interfaces connected to your network or the BeagleBone.

Once again, we save the tar ball to the /usr/src directory and then unzip it to a directory:

  1. First we get the tarball from the source website:

    wget https://fedorahosted.org/releases/i/p/iptraf-ng/iptraf-ng-1.1.4.tar.gz
    
  2. Then, we untar it into a directory:

    tar –xzfv iptraf-ng-1.1.4.tar.gz
    
  3. We then change to the iptraf-ng-1.1.4 directory, which was created previously.

  4. Type the following commands to compile the source code:

    ./configure
    make
    make install
    

    That's it we're done!

Note

One final note; file locations can be a moving target so if the preceding wget command doesn't work, a Google search should provide another location. The command is the same, but with a different web address.

Configuring IPTraf

Perform the following steps for configuring IPTraf:

  1. We run the program by...

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William Pretty

Bill Pretty began his career in electronics in the early 80s with a small telecom start-up company that would eventually become a large multinational. He left this company to pursue a career in commercial aviation in northern Canada. Next, he joined the Ontario Center for Microelectronics, a provincially funded research and development center. Bill left this for a career in the military as a civilian contractor at what was then called Defense Research Establishment Ottawa. Thus began a career that was to span the next 25 years and continues until today. Over the years, Bill acquired extensive knowledge in the field of technical security and started his own company in 2010. This company is called William Pretty Security Inc. and provides support in the form of research and development to various law enforcement and private security agencies. Bill has published and presented a number of white papers on the subject of technical security. For a number of years, he was also a guest presenter at the Western Canada Technical Conference, a law enforcement-only conference held every year in western Canada. A selection of these papers is available for download from his website.
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