[Etherape-users] Re: Etherape

[Juan T. <to...@us...>]

Kingsley Turner wrote:

> > > When EtherApe updates, I find it very confusing that the nodes move
> > > around on the circumference.  It would be good IMHO if the
> > > name/IP was in a fixed position on screen.  Obviously this has
> > > to change for the number of links to grow.  I find that there's
> > > so much movement it's impossible to read.  I don't see why this
> > > movement doesn't eventually settle down.  We have a particularly
> > > shitty network setup here (hundreds of boxes on the same subnet),
> > > and this creates a very erratic diagram.  It looks to me as if
> > > quiet nodes are actually removed - is this the case?  if it is
> > > can I turn it off?!
> > >

There is something else you can do right now.
Set node timeout time to 0 and they will not disappear anymore.
You will probabably want to use the -o option as well.