Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Flow graph functionality

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From: Jon Ringle <ml-ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:45:17 -0400
On Friday 29 April 2005 11:24, John McDermott wrote:
> This is very cool!  I do not have my lab set up in a way I can test it
> right now due to a power supply that needs replacement :-(.  If I capture
> on a firewall or router, can the tcp graph be configured to show stuff
> like:
>     inside  inside-fw  outside-fw  outside
>       ---syn---->
>                         ------syn---->
>                         <-- syn ack---
>       <--syn ack--
>
> I'd like to use this in teaching firewalls.

I had to observe firewall's treatment of packets, and I set myself an 
environment like the following diagram. The Sniffer box, has 3 nic cards. I 
would run 3 instances of tethereal simultaneously to create capture files on 
each interface, then use mergecap to put them into one capture file.

Jon

.......................................
                                      .
  +----------+     +----+             .
  |   /  \   |     |    |             .
     /    \        |    |             .
    / x122 \  <--->|    |             . 
   /        \      |    |        +----+----+
  ------------     |Net |        |    |    |
  192.168.0.7      |Gear|        | Netgear |
                   |    |<------>|   NAT   |<--------\
  +----------+     |four|        |    |    |          |
  |   /  \   |     |port|        +----+----+          |
     /    \        |    |  192.168.0.1|172.16.101.11  |
    / x201 \  <--->|HUB |             .               |
   /        \      |    |             .               |
  ------------     |    |             .               |
  192.168.0.9      +----+             .               |
                     ^                .               |
.....................|.................               |
                     |                                V
                     |                             +-----+
        192.168.0.2  V           +--------+        |     |         ____
                   +---+         |   SIP  |        |     |        (    )
                   | S |         | Server |<------>|3COM |       (      )
                   | n |         |        |        |     |      (        )
                   | i |         +--------+        |eight|<--->( Internet )
                   | f |       172.16.101.10       |port |      (        )
                   | f |                           |     |       (      )
                   | e |                           | HUB |        (____)
                   | r |<------------------------->|     |
                   +---+  172.16.101.12            |     |
        192.168.5.2  ^                             +-----+
                     |                                ^
.....................|.................               |
                     V                .               |
  +----------+     +----+             .               |
  |   /  \   |     |    |             .               |
     /    \        |    |             .               |
    / x123 \  <--->|    |             .               |
   /        \      |    |        +----+----+          |
  ------------     |Net |        |    |    |          |
  192.168.5.5      |Gear|        | Netgear |          |
                   |    |<------>|   NAT   |<--------/
  +----------+     |four|        |    |    |         
  |   /  \   |     |port|        +----+----+         
     /    \        |    |  192.168.5.1|172.16.101.13
    / x202 \  <--->|HUB |             .              
   /        \      |    |             .              
  ------------     |    |             .              
  192.168.5.6      +----+             .              
                                      .              
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