Announcing Trisul

We are happy to announce a major new open source project called Trisul.

What is Trisul ?

Trisul is a network metering and forensics tool. You can install Trisul on any Linux box and have it look at network traffic in real time or via capture files. It meters the traffic (by host, by protocol, by subnet, etc) and stores the results in a SQL database. Trisul also includes a Ruby on Rails application called Web Trisul that allows you to use a web browser to view data in the form of pretty charts.

Status

Trisul has been in development for a few months now primarily as a remote probe for the upcoming Unsniff 2.0 release. We decided to make it open source once we cleaned up some embarassing bits of code. The entire software is GPLv3.

You can install Trisul right away and do some really useful stuff with it. It is still rough around the edges in terms of documentation and the occasional stability problem.

Get it !

We encourage all network administrators especially those involved in security operations to try out Trisul. 

The Trisul Project Site

Trisul Sourceforge Download Page

 

Author: Vivek Rajagopalan

Vivek Rajagopalan is the a lead developer for Trisul Network Analytics. Prior products were Unsniff Network Analyzer and Unbrowse SNMP. Loves working with packets , very high speed networks, and helping track down the bad guys on the internet. View all posts by Vivek Rajagopalan