["Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Attached is a picture of the current quite well working version of the gui
io-stat similar
to the tehtereal -z io,stat,1,...    thingy.

Please feel free to add it to the screenshots part of the webpage when the
next version is released.





Right now I am considering adding something to tethereal and ethereal that
mimics the Traffic-Map
display of  other sniffers.
For those unfamiliar with Traffic-Map/Matrix/whatever it is basically a
window displaying a circle
taking up the majority of the window size.   At equidistant points around
the circumference of this circle
stations are placed (selectable between Ethernet, TokenRing, IP, ... )
and lines are drawn between the stations to indicate traffic and traffic
quantity.
The more traffic are between two stations, the higher the intensity and
width of the line connecting them will be.
Of course, since it will do this based on ethereal display-filter matching
it will be more powerful and feature rich than anything else in any other
tool. Anything less than that would be a failure.


Not really too useful but there are some occasions where something like this
is useful.
(to be honest, mainly useful in what I call network-monitors and less so in
protocol-analyzers)

Attachment: iostat.png
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