Network monitoring

Simon's icon

I want to monitor network activity on a computer and convert the network activity to sound using Max/MSP. I have no idea how to get network monitoring information into Max/MSP. I tried using udprecieve or that kind of objects, but they all do not work on port 80 (convert your browsing activities into sounds).

Does anybody has any insights in how to do this?

Best regards,
Simon Windt

Owen Green's icon

Hi Simon,

You want some sort of packet sniffer. Someone, Vade, I think, has
recommended carnivore in the past
http://r-s-g.org/carnivore/

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Owen

Simon wrote:
> I want to monitor network activity on a computer and convert the
> network activity to sound using Max/MSP. I have no idea how to get
> network monitoring information into Max/MSP. I tried using udprecieve
> or that kind of objects, but they all do not work on port 80 (convert
> your browsing activities into sounds).
>
> Does anybody has any insights in how to do this?
>
> Best regards, Simon Windt
>
>

Simon's icon

Thanks. I just found it before your post :D. Never the less thanks for your reply.

Best regards,
Simon

nick rothwell | project cassiel's icon

On 17 Jan 2007, at 14:20, Simon wrote:

> Does anybody has any insights in how to do this?

When we did our network-activity-to-sound project (http://www.aural-
codes.com), I used Perl for network sniffing, and pumped the packets
into PD for the initial audio signals (for reasons which escape me)
and then into MaxMSP on a second machine. It depends on how literally
you want the actual digital audio to represent the network data; if
you want to use it as control rather than audio, you could knock up a
packet-to-OSC proxy of some kind.

    -- N.