"tcptrace" analyzes a packet capture file to plot various statistics about the traffic captured. The output graphs are in ".xpl" files, which can be viewed using "xplot". "xplot" doesn't seem to be available for Gentoo, although it is available in Debian. So I am requesting that "xplot" be added to Portage, either on its own or as part of the "tcptrace" package.
I did a little more research on this. I tried to find the "xplot" source, and the web site that is supposed to have it is either gone or down. So I downloaded the "tcptrace" source from their own web site, figuring they might have included a copy of "xplot". They didn't -- however, they *do* have a utility shell script, "xpl2gpl", which will convert the "xplot" files "tcptrace" builds into files that "gnuplot" can read! That would work fine for what I'm doing. The latest stable version of "tcptrace" is 6.6.1, the same one I got from the Portage tree. So I'm guessing all that needs to be done here is to copy "xpl2gpl" into "/usr/bin" during the install and update the documentation. Incidentally, there appears to be more than one package called "xplot". The one in Debian may not in fact be the one that deals with the files generated by "tcptrace".
6.6.1-r1 adds xpl2gpl, einfo.
