[ethereal-dev] Some new old projects?

[John McDermott <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

While cleaning out some e-mail I encountered people's comments about
some ideas they were working on for Ethereal:
- performance graph
- scripting tools
- host to host (circular) traffic graph
- others
Anyone still working on any of these?

I'm interested in performance graphing.  I have a need for displaying
network usage -- perhaps as a percentage of some specified bandwidth. 
There was some talk of doing it as part of the "Capture/Playback"
window.  [Playback still listed as a "To do".]  There was some
discussion as to whether or not graphing was something we'd like to add
or whether perhaps it belonged as a separate app.  I was thinking of
something along the lines of netmon, but having n lines each colorized
based on a filter and tracking absolute packet count or percentage of
total packets either since start of Ethereal or over a (user
configurable) time interval (that is the user would see a radio button
choice of those three with the last having a dialog to enter the number
of seconds for the interval).

Has anyone done any work on this?  I have a *little* possible funding,
but I'd much prefer to start with something as the operative word is
"little".

Thanks,
--john
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