Ethernet Tap over SSH

The original way to use an Ethernet Tap for IO Ninja was to plug it into a USB port on your PC, start the Ethernet Tap plugin in IO Ninja, and then work with the attached tap normally. But what if the Ethernet link you must inspect is at a site where it's not convenient to stay while capturing the traffic? What if it's a distant facility, and you need to keep capturing over a weekend?

IO Ninja now contains a dedicated tool called ioninja-hwc for controlling the IO Ninja hardware taps remotely. Now, you can attach your Ethernet Tap to a headless Raspberry Pi (or other ARM-based Linux board with USB ports) and use this tap over SSH from another PC located wherever is convenient for you.

Once ioninja-hwc on the remote machine is accessible over SSH, you can use Ethernet Tap over SSH to monitor any Ethernet connection — as if the tap was plugged in to your local PC.

Everything the Ethernet Tap Can Do, Now Over SSH!

Ethernet Tap over SSH features all the great features as the Ethernet Tap plugin:

Powerful & Beautiful Logging Engine

The Ninja Scroll logging engine is the heart of IO Ninja! It offers many unique and useful features you won't find in other ethernet tapping software, such as interleaving binary data with informational messages for a clear timeline of events, switching between hex-view and plain-text view of binary data, a regex markup engine for highlighting data based on regular expressions, and many others!

Scriptability

With the Script Pane, you can generate ethernet packets programmatically, wait for and react to ethernet events, and automatically reply to incoming data, etc.

For more complex binary packets, you can describe the structure and methods for updating checksums or other auto-calculated fields as a Packet Template, then conveniently fill in the fields in a property grid.