traviscross / mtr

Official repository for mtr, a network diagnostic tool
http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/
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Questions regarding mtr #436

Open stdedos opened 2 years ago

stdedos commented 2 years ago

Hello there, and thank you for the most useful ping/tracert program 😄

Apologies for hi-jacking an Issue to ask questions, but I didn't know what is there as an option. 😅

  1. What are the "Display Options" provided? Would you care to elaborate on the man page / on the program display? (there seems to be enough space most of the times to even add it on the program)
  2. What is the ? used for, that's not documented?
  3. What is the > used for, that's on the scale bar but not documented?
  4. "On the second Display Option", you are showing the Scale but not using it. Bug or feature?
  5. Would you consider using a different color for a, like blue for example? "Even though" it doesn't make sense (a and b are pretty bad anyway), still the visual distinction might be good 😄
  6. I am wondering - is the 3rd display option "kinda like a stacked graph" display? image\ I am not sure I see it, because my scale right now is too big (0-5000ms) - but I wanted to ask / it'd be nice to identify bottlenecks like that
  7. Would you be open to having CI building the executable / rudimentary debian packaging? ("works on my machine" kind of support, though; other supporters welcome to improve things ofc if they want)

I'll consider using the Discussion next time for these kind of things, if you are interested to activate it. 😄