Ronnie,et. Al. While you are thinking about features for taps, one thing that might be useful is allow taps to feed back to ethereal proper. This would allow a tap that say is performing some "expert" function to alter the main ethereal display.
For example, your tap might try to find and summarise the "slow" TCP connections. It might also display the frame or time where these occur in a summary list. It would be nice to be able to click on this summary list, and then have the tap drive the main ethereal window to scroll to the actual frame of interest. Alternatively you might want to display a subset of relevent frames only, by creating a temporary display filter to show the frames that the tap has discovered. I know that the tap code nwriter could write code to do this directly (I have hacked this into some code I did a while back) but it might be nice to have generic code that allows the tap to "talk back" to ethereal. Your thoughts anyone? Martin Visser Network Consultant Technology & Infrastructure - Consulting & Integration COMPAQ, part of the new HP 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile *: +61-411-254-513 Fax 7: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail * : martin.visserAThp.com
