Hi Ulf,
> What you are suggesting isn't a network analyzer, but a monitoring /
> measurement tool. Ethereal isn't aimed for that purpose and it would be
> very hard to make it like that.
Sorry, but I don't understand why it would it be hard? I proposed some
changes to the graphing window that look like they would be fairly easy
to implement (a few weeks' work) but would make Ethereal much easier to
use for beginner network admins.
I'm convinced enough that Ethereal is a good base platform for this kind
of tool that I'd be ready to fork it and develop my own version with
better graphing tools, but of course I'd rather not do that if I can get
any support from the developers to add that functionality to the core
Ethereal code base.
I don't think it would require a significant amount of extra code, or
impose much penalty (more than 100kb of compiled code) on any user who
doesn't want to use it. But even as someone who can read a tcpdump
trace, I would occasionally find it useful to have a bird's eye view of
network traffic, rather than the up-close-and-personal packet view.
Especially if I could have both in the same tool, on the same data, and
switch between them at will, as I was proposing.
> There are several tools already out there for this purpose (I don't have
> a use for it, so can't give you any good tips).
But none of them are open source, or run on both Windows and Linux, as
far as I can tell (my research isn't finished yet).
I hope that somebody other than me thinks this is a good idea, and worth
having in Ethereal.
Cheers, Chris.
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