[Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Last night I saw a demo of the Clearsight Networks Analyser product. It is 
certainly very capable. The two things that looked very cool were:

1. Playback of content scraped from a capture file. We listened to a phone 
conversation that had been captured (for troubleshooting purposes) and 
watched a part of a video stream that had been captured.

2. Its ability to take two captures of the same traffic but at different 
places in the network, and then produce a ladder diagram showing the 
progress of the packets towards (or away) from the cloud. This makes it 
very clear where problems lie for the most part, although one of the demos 
that Bo Han gave could have been solved with knowledge of fast retransmit 
behavior in modern TCP stacks.

There is other added value that they offer, of course, but the above two 
would seem to me to be the most worthwhile things that Ethereal could do. 
Of course, handling two capture files at once will take more 
infrastructure changes that the first is likely to do ...

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com