The NST provides a full front end to the wireshark network protocol analyzer. This screen shot demonstrates one of the available decoded outputs (TCP traffic) as it will appear in the 1.5.0 release of the NST. In addition to the color coding, hot links are provided which enable one to further drill down to packets which interest them (including the ability to dynamically follow a particular TCP stream).

This screen shows an I/O graph produced by the network protocol analyzer: wireshark (Note: Formerly know as: ethereal). The red bars on the graph represent http protocol network traffic. The NST FluxBox desktop in this screen was rendered with a VNC client running on a Windows XP Professional desktop.

This screen shot shows what one will typically see after logging into the NST Virtual Machine. The sceen shot was taken on a Windows XP desktop running at 1280x1024 using the GIMP. The NST Virtual Machine (version 1.4.1) is shown running at 1024x768 within a VMware Server Console. The NST is running within a VMware Server (the free version) on this same Windows XP system. If you look closely, you'll notice:

• The password needs to be set.
• The IP address (192.168.0.59) of the virtual NST system is shown on the title line (NST WUI Home Page) of the page loaded in firefox.
• This is a dual core system (gkrellm is showing information for both CPU0 and CPU1).
• This VMware Server is also running a virtual Fedora Core 4 system for doing NST development (see the "FC4 for NST Development" tab in the VMware Server Console).

This is a typical display of the main NST boot screen.

This screen shows both tcptrack and etherape running on a NST. Both of these tools provide a glimpse of the current TCP connections/traffic.

This screen shows information which ettercap determined after a minute of sniffing the connection between my home LAN and the Internet.

After seeing that the wmweather+ dock app indicated that it was raining in my area, I decided to see if any lightning was occurring. While a real time lightning display isn't included in the NST distribution (its not really intended for monitoring weather), I was able to make use of the X server capabilities built into the NST. I was able to run my real time lightning display utility on a different system and use the NST as the display. Looks like there's just rain in my area (the midwest is pretty void of lightning). Ron Henderson and Paul Blankenbaker share some history during the initial creation of the National Lightning Detection Network. We were both involved in the creation of a Lightning Direction Controller Finder (US Patent 5,036,334).

This screen shows various available DockApps on the NST FluxBox menu.

This screen shows the transparency feature of the aterm terminal emulator rendered with a tightvnc client running on a Windows XP Professional desktop. Command: aterm -tr -fg black -bg white.

This screen displays the GKrellM application which is a single process stack of system monitors which supports themes to match its appearance to the associated window manager. The GKrellKam plugin is also shown. This plugin displays thumbnails of periodically updated images. A thumbnail and fully rendered image of the traffic flowing over the Tappanzee Bridge is displayed by the GKrellKam plugin.

This screenshot shows the Firewall Builder application running within the NST FluxBox X Window manager. Firewall Builder is a multi-platform firewall configuration and management tool that currently supports iptables, ipfilter, OpenBSD PF and Cisco PIX firewalls. The Firewall Builder also supports management of the iptables firewall ruleset policy within the Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS routers running firmware from Sveasoft.

This screen shows a portion of the NST Web User Interface (WUI) page for setting up the snort IDS application.

This screen shows the NST Web User Interface (WUI) file viewer page. The NST WUI file viewer is capable of viewing files in ASCII or hex mode, prepending line numbers, varying display widths and content output lengths, file editing, file download, file status and auto-refresh file tail viewing.