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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Graphical statistics display?

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From: Pavel Mores <pvl@xxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:26:45 +0200
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:31:16PM -0600, Jens Link wrote:

> Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Basically, some kind of dash-board type layout with real-time
> > dials/bars/charts/whatever to show packets, bytes for the
> > past 5 minutes (or 5-min average)... 
> 
> Ok, I see something like Novells LanAlyser.
> 
> > I'm interested in interface counters now, but I imagine the GUI work
> > could be easily generalized to support stats on individual TCP streams
> > too...
> 
> Mabye something like iptraf with a GUI integrated into ethereal?

I've been thinking about lots of similar stuff but thanks to my
experience with ethereal development I wouldn't recommend trying to do
this until there's some plugin API.

	pvl