Re: Need help in developing a Tk GUI to represent packet flow in a network

sharad1087@rediffmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to develop a GUI in Tk that will represent the flow of packets
> in a network. For example, the 3-way handshake in TCP. Also, I would
> like to display some parameters related to the packets/information
> exchnage in the GUI. The requirement is that the application will show
> packet-transfer at run-time,i.e., at the time of their generation. This
> information will somehow be available(say for example using trace on a
> variable). Any help regarding the same will be highly appreciated.
>

You might like to look at nam:

"Nam is a Tcl/TK based animation tool for viewing network simulation
traces and real world packet traces."

http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/nam/index.html

This draws networks and animates TCP packet flows quite nicely.
Received on Thu Sep 29 14:19:24 2005