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Subject: Re: tcp analysis tool?
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Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> On 10/18/07, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:
>> does anyone have a favourite tool for analysing tcp flows to easily figure out why a transfer is slow?
>>
>> I am hoping for something that can help visualise the flow as one of those
>> "two timeline poles with lines between them" diagrams..
>>
>> (that doesn't require too much extra software to be loaded.
> 
> i used tcptrace at one point.
> 
> http://jarok.cs.ohiou.edu/software/tcptrace/
> 
> works on dumps produced by tcpdump and can do some plots and provides
> some statistical data.
> 
> thanks,
> max

thanks..

I see from the man page it can do what I want!