Graphing

tcptrace can generate six different types of graphs illustrating various parameters of a TCP connection. These graphs can be viewed with Tim Shepard's xplot program or with the Java version of the same program called jPlot developed by Avinash Lakhiani.

The graphs and the options for tcptrace that generate them, are explained below. tcptrace leaves *.xpl data files in the working directory when the graphing options are given, and the data files can be viewed with the xplot program as in

xplot a2b_tsg.xpl

tcptrace uses the same naming scheme observed in previous chapters to generate the graphs. The files a2b_*.xpl and b2a_*.xpl are the graphing data files for both the directions of traffic of the first connection, the c2d_*.xpl and d2c_*.xpl files are for the second connection, and so on.



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