Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Re: Best token ring card for ethereal?

[ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Infotop Ltd)]

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>From what I remember, NetXray had features like:
* circle/chord graphs of which nodes were talking to which others.
* pie graphs of traffic volume by protocol type
* line graphs of traffic volume
and so on.

Personally, I think its preferable for Ethereal developers to concentrate 
on the core functionality - three-pane decodes of packets captured. 
There's probably still many packet types and lots of application-data 
that's not yet supported in the Ethereal decode logic. I still have 
problems with the capture/display filter logic for example.

I use other tools like Ntop for other types of statistical analysis of 
traffic. MRTG for monitoring/graphing traffic volumes over time. I have 
perl scripts for doing other kinds of summarisation of Ethereal decodes 
that I printed to a text file. The newer print features will help there.

sen_ml@xxxxxxxxxxx asked:
> i wonder what the reviewer meant by feature-poor...
> 
> page>         or Ethereal, a free (but feature-poor) decoder for Linux.

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Ian Wilson