[Jason House <jhouse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:

> Right now I am considering adding something to tethereal and ethereal that
> mimics the Traffic-Map

> display of  other sniffers.
> 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)

Actually, it could become very useful if the information shown wasn't just based
off of traffic loading, but could be based off of any (numerical) filterable
field or tap output.  Like what about maximum tcp round trip time or tcp
retransmission  rate or other things like that?  From the network analysis
perspective, those are highly useful pieces of information.