Just a quck question about a direction for ethereal to take one day;
Is it likely to be feasible to get data out of ethereal that could be
used in application performance analysis. What I want to do is end up
with a series of records that describe conversations between machines.
they would list the hosts involved, the type of communication, and the
request-response time interval, an possibly the total conversation time.
It would be like a merging of the follow TCP and protocol dissection.
eg
timestamp,request source host,request dest host,protocol,conversation
descreption (eg IMAP fetch),response time,duration,bytes
that is, the protocol dissector would note the beginning of a request,
(IMAP fetch for eg), not when the server responded, and how long it took
to finish the request.
This data could then be stuffed into a database, and response time vs
time etc could be analysed, to provide some application level data
similar to products like compuwares eco-scope.
Regards,
Darren Steven
Applications Specialist
Networking Tasmania
Telstra Australia
Ph.1800 813 302
