Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal Top Talkers - Other reporting info?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:35:23AM +1100, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ian Schorr"
> > Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 7:35 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal Top Talkers - Other reporting info?
> 
> > As long as we're talking about new features =)
> >
> > How about reporting of Application Response Time within the decode pane?
> >   (ART as in end-of-call to beginning-of-response delta times, not
> > call-to-next-UDP-segment-from-server or call-to-TCP-ACK as Sniffer
> > calculates it =)
> >
> > Graphs would be nice, but ideally I'd like to be able to add a column to
> > the decode pane that displays ART calculations.  Better yet, columns for
> > call-to-response, end-of-response to beginning-of-next-call, number of
> > calls outstanding (unanswered by the server), etc.  VERY useful
> > statistics when trying to troubleshoot any kind of performance issue.
> >
> > Is this possible now, and I just don't realize it?
> >
> 
> Yes.
> All ONC-RPC and DCE-RPC based protocols that ethereal supports will put ART
> value in teh decode pane.
> SMB packets will also put ART value in the decode pane.

He may not mean the same thing by "decode pane" that you do.  He spoke
of columns in what *he* called the "decode pane", so he may mean the
packet list pane (topmost pane).  However, you are referring to the pane
showing the detailed packet decode (which is what I'd call the decode
pane as well - I'd calle the first pane the "packet list pane" or the
"summary pane").

So a user can get that information - they just can't get it in the
packet list display (without adding code to implement it).