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On Friday 24 November 2006 23:10, Woodchuck wrote:
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> Well, hours later...


> Please tell me exactly what you want from etherape, and I'll try to
> figure out another way to get it.  I don't want to fix its bug with
> the resolver.  The maintainer of the etherape port is

Thank you for the kind offer! I think you like to work with logic! :)

Under SGI there was this nifty program which gives you a quick visual view of 
the number of connections and bandwidth used. I don't recall the name but 
it's essentially working like etherape.

Besides from agreeing with your assessment of the inadequate nature, I was 
delighted to see it as since the graphical display gives you an instant 
picture of the number of connections and load used by each connection.

It lets me select a link and get more data, like current and total bandwidth 
including address, by clicking on it. I can also terminate a connection (if I 
recalled that right).

On a big network it's probably not workable, too many entries, lines etc. 

Yes, sight, it does so at a large CPU expense. 


I was actually looking for ethereal and ran into etherape. I need ethereal as 
it does a better job than anything I've seen in analyzing packets, and 
generally debug network issues. It's a bloated hog too, but works reasonably 
well.

Ethereal was pulled after a big security hole was found. It took several 
versions later to fix (0.10.14, at least .10, if I recall correctly).

I got a VoIP issue and need to analyze the packet communication to see what is 
being "said" by whom. Being familiar with ethereal it's my choice tool.


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