Publications

C. Zhao and J. Mayo, A TCP/UDP Visualization Tool: Visual TCP/UDP Animator (VTA), International Conference on Engineering Education 2002 (to appear)


User Manual

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
    The Motivation of VTA
    What is VTA?
    Platforms VTA runs on
    Reporting problems and getting help

2. Building and Configuring VTA
    Building VTA from Source under LINUX
    Configuring the Binaries under LINUX

3. Using VTA
    The VTA main control frame
          The VTA menus
           The VTA File menu
           The VTA Control menu
                      Set Display Pace Window
           The VTA Window menu
           The VTA Help menu
    The VTA user wizard
         Data Specification Window
         Capturing Filter Window
            VTA Filter -- protocol & device
            VTA Filter -- Address
         Select View Window
         Step or Nonstep Window
         Socket List Window
    The VTA Views
         The Packet List View
             Operation Menu
         The Connection Packet View
             Operation Menu
         The Connection Reconstruction View
             Operation Menu
             Stop Window
         The Machine Distribution View
             Operation Menu
             View Menu
             Window Menu
                      Node Information Window
         The TimeLine View
              Operation Menu
              Viewing Filter Window for the timeline view
         The Tcp Status View
              Options Menu

4. Using VTA wrapper library (vtaWrapper.a)
         An example of using vtaWrapper.a

5. Miscellaneous Topics
        Capturing with tcpdump for viewing with VTA