Perfect,
you are right, if the first segment is a SYN all works good.
I noticed this because I captured traffic in the middle of a ftp.
Ok, you can send me the code.
Thanks again
Fabio
----- Original Message -----
From: Pavel Mores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:09:04 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] throughput graph
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:21:55PM +0800, Fabio Mascio wrote:
>
> > Hi Pavel,
> > thank you very much for your patch, but I don't know if my email box
> > can accept it, can I download from elsewhere?
>
> Oh, it's "large" in terms of lines of code, actually it's going to be a
> couple of kilobytes, I believe.
>
> > About code I just mean that at 21st sample the sum is sum -= oldest->data;
> > but as you say the delta time is recomputed ONLY at the top of the next iteration
> > of the loop, so the 21sf sum does
> > not has the bytes of the first sample (that furthermore they are NEVER added
> > before so why subtract them now?) but the delta time is still calculated on 21
> > samples.
> > If just the first time that i=21 oldest->data will be 0, the throughput will be
> > computed over 21 samples but byte and time will be synchronized.
> > Anyway I will give again a look to the code, maybe I'm falling in mistake.
>
> Now I understand, you're right. dtime should be computed only after
> the oldest pointer is modified. That even means that bytes and time are
> not sychronized because by the time of tput computation, dtime still
> spans back to the time the oldest packet arrived but the oldest packet's
> data are already subtracted from the sum. As for the first segment's
> data, the bug went unnoticed probably because the first segment will
> usually be a SYN segment that tends to carry no data.
>
> pvl
>
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