Welcome to IP-Link’s documentation!

The goal of IP-Link is to show the relationships between different IP addresses from network traffic capture, thus quickly determining for a given address the IP address with which it communicates the most.

Installation

$ sudo apt install libpcap0.8
$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~cedric/ip-link
$ cd ip-link/
$ poetry install
$ poetry shell

How it works

This section exposes the principles of IP-Link.

• How it works
• Extraction of the data
  • Ways of data extraction
  • Storing the results of extraction

Tutorial

This section explains how to generate the different visualizations.

• Generate a pcap file
• GraphViz
• Chord diagram with Circos
  • Circos installation
  • Generation of the input matrix for Circos
  • Generation of the chord diagram
• Bézier curve
• Scatter plot with ploticus
• Picviz
• RealTime Graph 3D
• MooWheel
• Histogram
• Filter by date

Documentation

This section explains how to use the different components.

• Extraction
  • pcap_to_sqlite.py
  • pcap_to_sqlite.sh
  • pcap_to_object.py
• Visualization
  • object_to_circos.py
  • object_to_moowheel.py

Donation

If you wish and if you like IP-Link, you can donate via bitcoin. My bitcoin address: 1GVmhR9fbBeEh7rP1qNq76jWArDdDQ3otZ. Thank you!