Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] incorrect tcptrace graphic for ftp transfer

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From: "Bill Meier" <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:38:24 -0500
> Hi,
> Why I get such an odd graphic (tcptrace style) with this capture?

> I'm using 0.10.13

> Cheers,
> Eduardo


What specifically do you think is odd about the tcptrace-style graph for the capture ?

After a bit of work, I found that the tcptrace-style graph looks about as I think it should for the 
ftp-data tcp connection in the capture.

(Do note that to see a useful time-sequence graph you must first:
1. filter on a tcp connection;
2. select a frame to determine the data flow for which the sequence numbers are charted.)


The above being said, I did find that I had to do a lot of vertical zooming on the chart to see any 
detail.

My guess is that this might be due to the scale used for the vertical axis (sequence numbers): 
4,000,000,000 (relative) as the largest number when I did the chart even though there are only 
about 10,000,000 bytes in the capture.

I suspect the apparently poor choice is related to the actual starting and ending sequence numbers 
in the connection being quite large.

I also note that zooming was very slow.

I'll have a look at the code to see what's going on (since I've also had difficulties with the 
vertical scale when I do tcp sequence graphs).


Bill Meier