Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Statistics in Ethereal

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From: "Hannes R. Boehm" <hannes@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:36:37 +0200
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 11:10:30PM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am thinking of adding some statistics routines in Ethereal.
> 
> It would be nice also to be able to graph the utilization and other info
> from the capure file.
> 
> The sorts of things I am thinking of is:
> 
> Add functionality that allows each dissect-routine to count the number of
> each packet type encountered, and then allow that info to be displayed.
> 
> Add a routine that can graph the utilization as each packet is being
> processed.
> 
> Add routines that allow dissect routines to look for names and add them to
> a names table (for filtering) etc.


I'd like to have a plot of the tcp window size. This should show the
slow start and fast retransmit.

Hannes



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