Displaying a tracert nicely

[plenderj]

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

[Sastraxi]

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.

[PsychoMark]

How about a Direct3D application which shows you flying around cables from one computer to another, with some nice sparks and stuff


tracert, by plenderj......system requirements: 1.8 Ghz, GeForce 3, 256 MB RAM


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

[Sastraxi]

Actually, it wouldn't be structured =) just look at it!

Instead, you would do this:

[Sastraxi]

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.

[PsychoMark]

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

[plenderj]

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...