Trisul – Packages released for Ubuntu Hardy and Fedora 7

There has been a lot of heavy activity on the open source Trisul Network Metering and Forensics project.

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Packages available

We have packages for Ubuntu (i386,32-bit) and Fedora (i386,32-bit) available for download. This is the easiest way to get install and give Trisul a spin.Please download the packages from http://code.google.com/p/trisul/downloads/list

You could be up and running in only 3 steps on Red Hat for example

  1. Download the RPM package from http://code.google.com/p/trisul/downloads/list
  2. As root : rpm -Uvh trisul-x.y.z.rpm
  3. As root : service trisul start

Thats it ! Trisul will now be capturing forensics data from eth0. Statistics and flows are stored in a SQLITE3 database, raw packets are stored in a ring directory. See the installation documentation for more details.
Mailing list support
Any trouble / questions / contributions ? Send email to trisul@googlegroups.com

You can browse the newly setup group at http://groups.google.com/group/trisul/topics

Freshmeat announcement
We are ready for our first public announcement on Freshmeat today. Trisul is stable and usable enough to be of great value immediately.

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.