Ethereal-dev: Fw: [ethereal-dev] Using Ethereal to measure application performance
Hello,
I was planning do to some work like this over the coming months. It would
good to come up with a generic scheme to allow any protocol to be described.
How do I go about proposing an extension to Ethereal and then doing the work
?
john
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> From: Darren Steven <dsteven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 2:56 AM
> Subject: [ethereal-dev] Using Ethereal to measure application performance
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> | 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
> |
> |
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