I can do a tracert in VB, but I'm looking for a cool way of showing the route and how close a particular route to a host is in comparison to other hosts etc.
Its for a project for college and I just wanna make the thing look cool :)
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I can do a tracert in VB, but I'm looking for a cool way of showing the route and how close a particular route to a host is in comparison to other hosts etc.
Its for a project for college and I just wanna make the thing look cool :)
How about having icons of all the computers, a link between all of them (to make a web) and then have a blinking light going from computer to computer, and after it has done going to one computer, show the name & time it took.
How about a Direct3D application which shows you flying around cables from one computer to another, with some nice sparks and stuff :D
tracert, by plenderj......system requirements: 1.8 Ghz, GeForce 3, 256 MB RAM :D
But seriously, there's not much that you can do in my opinion to make it fancy while keeping a nice overview. Sastraxi's approach a good one though, which would be a lot more structured than a couple of lines of text :)
Actually, it wouldn't be structured =) just look at it!
Instead, you would do this:
And 322ms RT should read 222ms RT! *oops*
Anyways, RT would mean that that was the time for the whole "round trip". The computer with the red screen is the local computer.
You could fade in each computer as the trace is made :)
Btw, Sastraxi, looks pretty clear to me, although most people who use tracert aren't interested in nice graphics :p
Yeah I like that way of displaying it too.
The project we're doing is measuring network metrics ; basically how far away things are.
So I was thinking, the user could enter a couple of hostnames into a few boxes, then hit GO.
So then basically, a central node would appear on the screen ; our pc. Then spokes would come out from it at ( 360 / ( Number of destination hosts ) ) degrees from one another.
And then times would be shown etc.
But I like sastraxi's approach...