Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Clearsight Networks Analyser product

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From: Alejandro Vaquero <alejandrovaquero@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:20:20 -0700
Regarding 1., I'm close to finish a plugin that works with the "VoipCalls" and you can listen the RTP conversation. I'm using Port Audio library (www.portaudio.com) for the audio interface. The big problem doing this is that are codecs that are licensed like g723 and g729 that we can not publish, so my idea is to add codecs as extra plugins. By default, I can include only G711. I was thinking to add this as optional when installing Ethereal (like Mate) if there is cuorum. I'm dev in Windows and then will test in Linux if we plan to include it.

Regards
Alejandro


Richard Sharpe wrote:
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

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