Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Graphs

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:13:54 -0500
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:12:37PM -0500, Bibek Sahu wrote:
> 
> 	I intend to add several types of graphs.  One of the graphs will be
> a pie chart listing the things you note above.  Another will be a histogram
> with basically the same info.  A third will be one I saw on a windoze proggy
> and liked: a circle with evenly spread points, each corresponding to an IP,
> and lines connecting them (I intend to extend upon this by adding
> "intensity" to it -- brighter/thicker means more traffic).  Possibly a
> fourth showing the same stuff as the third in a different way.

Sniffer Pro for Windows has this circle showing communications between
different nodes. It does increase the line thickness to correspond to
volume of communication. Additionally, it as 3 tabs, each one displaying
a different circle graph: one for MAC addresses, one for IP addresses,
and one for IPX addresses.

--gilbert