Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] tshark output format
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From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:26:29 -0800
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:32:43PM +0100, Sebastien Tandel wrote:

>    I am developing an analysis of the events occurring in ISIS. This 
> analysis should be an help to network operators to detect problems in 
> their network. Of course, to do this we have to present the results of 
> the analysis in a friendly fashion (many different graphs :)). 
> Furthermore being able to access this information from anywhere and in 
> real-time is really important for them. From anywhere, today, means 
> being accessible from a web page. I was then wondering whether you'll 
> accept a patch which performs an analysis by tshark outputting some 
> text (hardly human readable) which could be easily inserted in a RRD 
> by an external script (which could also be distributed by wireshark)?

I think a better way to integrate this with Wireshark would be to add 
the graphing capabilities to Wireshark itself.  There could be an option 
to save these graphs once viewed.  Do you see a problem with doing it 
this way?


Steve