Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Statistic tools

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From: Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:36:12 -0500
On 07:31 AM 12/15/2005, Alessandro Vidali wrote:
>Hi all... I'm using Ethereal to capture some Video streaming  traffic.
>I'd like to extract from my capture files some interesting stream characteristics (i.e. throughput, interarrival time, etc...) to evaluate the system performances.
>I have some characteristics from "Statistics" menu in Ethereal... but does anyone know if exist some tools that can read capture file made with Ethereal and give me any of these informations?


tcptrace may be one tool but may lack granularity you seek.

Take a look at http://wiki.ethereal.com/TcpPduTime

Basically, you can graph a number of things.
Notice that in the lower right corner of the IO Graph, you need to choose "Advanced"

In the first FILTER box, you may put something like "ip.src==10.1.1.1" 
in the CALC field, you might choose a function of AVERAGE and type in "tcp.windows_size" in the blank field.
In the STYLE field, choose LINE.

This will chart the TCP window size but you get the idea of how this can be used.

hsb