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tcptrace is a tool written by Shawn Ostermann at Ohio University, for analysis of TCP dump files. It can take as input the files produced by several popular packet-capture programs, including tcpdump, snoop, etherpeek, HP Net Metrix, and WinDump.

tcptrace is a tool written by Shawn Ostermann at Ohio University, for analysis of TCP dump files. It can take as input the files produced by several popular packet-capture programs, including tcpdump, snoop, etherpeek, HP Net Metrix, and WinDump. tcptrace can produce several different types of output containing information on each connection seen, such as elapsed time, bytes and segments sent and received, retransmissions, round trip times, window advertisements, throughput, and more. It can also produce a number of graphs for further analysis.

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RTT calculation using tcptrace

For the below attached tcptrace output (this is taken from the site http://tcptrace.org/manual/index.html under RTT stats) 1 arg remaining, starting with 'indica.dmp.gz' Ostermann's tcptrace -- version 6.4.5 -- Fri Jun 13, 2003 153 packets seen,…
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How can I measure the performance and TCP RTT of my server code?

I created a basic TCP server that reads incoming binary data in protocol buffer format, and writes a binary msg as response. I would like to benchmark the the roundtrip time. I tried iperf, but could not make it send the same input file multiple…
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Assistance viewing tcptrace output graphs using xplot

I am using tcptrace to get connection statistics from a tcpdump file. tcpdump -i any -nn -S -e -s 1514 -v port 4343 -w sink.cap tcptrace -G sink.cap > tcptrace.txt Tcptrace generates graphs in .xpl format. I am having trouble in viewing these…
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Pocketsoap TcpTrace does not show response data

I have a web service with endpoint:
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How to use tcpdump to capture a HTTP Post request filter by string match in response?

I'm trying to capture a HTTP request to debug my application. I'm not sure what tool can achieve that so I'm not sure where to start. I have used Wireshark, tcpdump in the past but to my knowledge wireshark or tcpdump can only capture based on…
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IP address in Tcptrace output

I am using a command of TCPTRACE to get flow information from a PCAP file generated by tcpdump, so here is the command I use: tcptrace -l -u -n -W PCAPlog but my problem is that I get this addresses: fe80::dd84:b89d:015c:c42a (for example)…
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Any program that calculates the throughput from the output of tcpdump?

I am currently using tcptrace but am observing some ridiculous throughputs on a test that I'm running. I am pretty sure something is wrong with the way I am testing but before spending any more time is there any other program I can use to verify…
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Installing tcptraceroute on ubuntu

I am trying to install tcptraceroute on my Ubuntu. I cannot use apt-get because there is a firewall issue. So I downloaded the package on my local and scp it over. When I run the ./configure command, it barks at me saying checking for…
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Plotting multiple files on same graph

I need to plot the outputs of various xpl files generated by tcptrace on the same graph so that graphical comparison becomes easier. Note: Here the x-axis is common for all xpl files(time). Only the y-axis differs. I need something like 2 y axis.…
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