"Packet Garden" free software that eats packets and grows stars

"Packet Garden" is free software developed with open source, and as you can see from the screen shot above, it is quite unusual that plants and mountains grow on the stars depending on the type of packet It is soft. Plants with purple flowers will grow if communication is via P2P application, plants with light blue leaves will increase with MSN Messenger, plants with red leaves will appear in online communication of games such as Quake 3 and Unreal 2004. Besides that, plants that correspond to IMAP, POP 3, SSH, HTTPS, FTP, HTTP communication are growing and growing.

Because it is developed with open source, it can operate on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X. WinPcap is required separately for Windows version, but it seems to work properly.

Download from below.
First of all, "Packet Garden" main body is downloaded from the following.

Packet Garden: PG - Install Title

WinPcap can be downloaded from the following.

WinPcap, the Packet Capture and Network Monitoring Library for Windows

After installing WinPcap_3_1.exe and installing it, it seems that it starts by unzipping the downloaded packetgarden_pre5_win32.zip and clicking the shortcut written "packetgarden" in it. If an error such as "GL_INVALID_ENUM" appears and it can not be done, it seems that it can be solved by upgrading the driver of the graphics card and updating OpenGL and it can be activated.

Approximately when it starts up like this


Information will be displayed in various ways


Packet information is displayed in the sky


It has become quite awesome.


At first it is pretty desolate with this feeling


Also, in the Linux version, it is classified properly by the country where the packet is sent and received, and seems to change speed and place to grow.

The list of plants according to each packet type is as follows.

Packet Garden: PG - Ports Title