When you go to "Packet Lengths" in the Statistics menu, you get the following:
My question is this: how are these values calculated? Are their formulas somewhere in the documentation, and if so, where? I'm especially interested in knowing how the "burst rate" is calculated. Another thing: is it possible to obtain this data through tshark? Thanks! asked 02 May '17, 08:12  workin221 |
One Answer:
Once @Amato-C and I had evaluated it for this question: https://ask.wireshark.org/questions/42545/what-data-does-burst-rate-and-burst-start-provide-in-statistics-packet-lengths answered 02 May '17, 08:26  Christian_R |
So, if I understand correctly, does this mean that the capture is divided and analyzed with a window of, say, 10ms, and the burst rate is the maximum number of packets sent in any such intervals?
Yes that is true.
I see, thank you. Do you know if it's possible to obtain this information through tshark? I'm trying to write a python script that extracts this kind of information from a pcap file. I guess I can always do it "manually" though.