[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 10:49 AM, Steve Jones wrote:

> I've got a Unix host that I do not control, but suspect that 
> performance problems are happening due to it being bogged down.  I 
> have successfully set up Ethereal to capture all telnet traffic, and 
> have aLOTof data to weed through. I saw on the web page that the 
> latest version has a function to report "response time" but I couldn't 
> find anything specific in the man pages to help with what I'm trying 
> to detect.

Unfortunately, it only reports response time for some protocols - and 
Telnet isn't one of them.  That's because Telnet isn't (other than when 
it's doing negotiation) a request/response protocol; it has no idea 
that, for example, a given character going in one direction is an echo 
of a character going in the other direction, and should be treated as a 
response to that character.  (It gets harder if multiple characters go 
in a single TCP segment and the corresponding characters weren't in a 
single TCP segment.)

I don't know, offhand, of any good way to do what you're trying to do.  
That doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it just means somebody else will 
have to be the one to suggest it; perhaps somebody will.