Re: [Etherape-users] Some suggestions when reading from capture file

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

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:25:21PM +0200, Berend Reitsma wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to propose some possible enhancements:
> 
> - It would be nice to be able to change timing when reading from a capture
>   file. Something like (capture.c)
>     ms_to_next = factor * (diff.tv_sec * 1000 + diff.tv_usec / 1000);
>   with a nice slider for factor...
>   and resetting timeouts when changing the factor...
> 
> - Show date/time info (because current date/time is of no use).
>   Absolute or relative time.
> 
> - Maximum and minimum fixed time between packets.
>   Something like:
>     ms_to_next = max(ms_to_next, MIN_WAITTIME);
>     ms_to_next = min(ms_to_next, MAX_WAITTIME);
> 
> - Add fast forward (and backward) reading.
> 
> - Read compressed capture files (with zlib)
> 
> 
> What do you think?

It all sounds very nice indeed (although I think that reading backwards or
going back is not as straight forward as the rest of the items) but I'm
afraid that I won't be able to update EtherApe for a while.

I will happily accept and merge patches, though. :-)

Have you ever tried programming with libglade? It _SO_ easy. Just fire
glade etherape.glade, draw your slider and write your callback :-)

Regards,
Juan.
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EtherApe, a graphical network monitor modeled after etherman
http://etherape.sourceforge.net/