Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Analysing output data

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From: "Adam Green" <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:32:47 -0000

Dear All,

 

I would imagine this question comes up all the time.  I have looked through the archives, but with the time I have available to me, I have been unable to find anything relevant.

 

I would like to use Ethereal to analyse the performance of various wireless network scenarios.  Typically this will focus upon transportation of MPEG streams.

 

Within this use case, the frequency at which packets are dispatched and received is of importance.  I would like to be able to extract this data from Ethereal.  The data field is “Time Delta from Previous Packet” and is one of many aspects I would like to investigate.

 

I have looked for some form of export function, so that the number crunching can be automated.  Even exporting it to a text file would allow regular expressions to be used against it.  Yet I can find no method of doing this.

 

I would be most grateful if someone could give me a nudge in the right direction.

 

Sincere Thanks,

Adam