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Revision: 547
Author:   

Date:     Mon Aug 29 04:34:16 2011
Log:      Added information how to read tcpdump and snaplog traces.
http://code.google.com/p/ndt/source/detail?r=547

Modified:
 /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki

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--- /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki    Mon Aug 29 04:31:28 2011
+++ /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki    Mon Aug 29 04:34:16 2011
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@

 These tcpdump files are written using the [http://www.tcpdump.org/ pcap]  
library.

+The tcpdump files can be read using [http://www.tcpdump.org/ tcpdump] and  
[http://www.tcptrace.org/ tcptrace] programs.
+
 ===web100 snaplog trace===

 Writing snaplog files is enabled by the `--snaplog` option.
@@ -77,7 +79,7 @@

 The list of logged variables with a short description can be found in the  
[NDTProtocol#Appendix_A._web100_variables NDT Protocol document].

-
+The NDT package comes with a utility (called genplot) that can convert  
snaplog trace files into text or xplot graph files. Alternatively the user  
can write their own analysis program using the [http://www.web100.org/  
web100] library functions.

 ===web100srv.log file===

@@ -205,10 +207,6 @@

 ==Displaying collected data==

-The tcpdump files can be read using [http://www.tcpdump.org/ tcpdump] and  
[http://www.tcptrace.org/ tcptrace] programs.
-
-The NDT package comes with a utility (called genplot) that can convert  
snaplog trace files into text or xplot graph files. Alternatively the user  
can write their own analysis program using the [http://www.web100.org/  
web100] library functions.
-
 The NDT server also contains a Java application that can look through the  
NDT log files and link log entries to trace files, and it also simplifies  
the viewing of this data. The utility will need to be rewritten slightly to  
take advantage of the meta files instead of (in addition to) the log files.

 The detailed tcpdump and snaplog files can be used to re-examine the test  
to see what happened, i.e.: