A GUI viewer for saphics/ip-location-db ip-geolocation databases, which can display your computer's live network traffic and perform trace routes.

Search	Capture	Traceroute

On Linux, install WebKitGTK.

• On Linux, install libpcap.
• On Windows, install Npcap with network capture for non-administrator users.
• On MacOS, libpcap is already installed.

On Windows, you must enable a firewall rule to send ICMP packets for the traceroute feature.

New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "ICMPv4 Ipmap Allow" -Name ICMPv4_IPMAP_ALLOW -Protocol ICMPv4 -Action Allow
New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "ICMPv6 Ipmap Allow" -Name ICMPv6_IPMAP_ALLOW -Protocol ICMPv6 -Action Allow

Enable-NetFirewallRule ICMPv4_IPMAP_ALLOW
Enable-NetFirewallRule ICMPv6_IPMAP_ALLOW

Requirements:

• General tauri prerequisites
• Rust
• tauri-cli
• pnpm

 $ pnpm install -C ui
 $ cargo build --release --package ipmap-child
 $ cargo tauri build

• /crates
  • /desktop - The main program entrypoint, starts tauri and generates Typescript IPC types.
  • /ipgeo - Data structures for representing ip-geolocation databases.
  • /ipgeo-state - UI state and methods for loading and switching ip-geolocation databases.
  • /pcap-dyn - Dynamic bindings to the libpcap C library, modeled after the pcap crate.
  • /pcap-state - UI state and command for packet capture.
  • /child - A separate child process (ipmap-child) for executing privileged features such as packet capture and traceroute.
  • /child-ipc - Shared types between pcap-state and ipmap-child for IPC and methods for executing ipmap-child.
• /ui - The desktop UI, written with Svelte and Typescript.

flowchart TD
    subgraph ipmap["ipmap process"]
        subgraph backend["Rust Backend"]
            desktop -> ipgeo
        end

        frontend["Native WebView UI (Svelte)"] <--specta generated typescript IPC--> desktop
    end

    subgraph child["ipmap-child process"]
        trippy-core
        pcap-dyn
    end

    desktop <--child-ipc types--> child

• Check MacOS compatibility.
• Improve logging.
• Add database file association.
• Find a new project name (?).
• Animated demo in readme.
• Light/dark mode with system. Try to match native UI?
• Translate user interface.
• Get default network interfaces with native APIs.
• Add multi-lingual readmes (zh, es).
• Remove public-ip-address bloated dependency, create our own solution.
• Add settings dialog.
  • Different map layers?
  • Capture report frequency and connection timeout.
• Reverse location-to-ip-block search
• Location Heatmap generation (custom webview protocol that serves leaflet tiles?)
• Set child permissions through UI