Re: Reduce zenmap topology noise (patch)

[Brahim Sakka <brahim.sakka () gmail com>]

I've stumbled upon this several times and was looking for a way to
reduce the noise you described. Thank you for this patch and I hope it
gets committed to Nmap.


2011/12/14, Anders Sundman <anders () 4zm org>:
> Hi,
>
> When running many traceroutes that traverse the same "anonymous" hop
> between two known hosts, zenmap creates a new node in the graph for each
> traceroute. This introduces a lot of unnecessary clutter in the graph.
> 200 traceroutes passing 2 (physical) anonymous devices currently
> generates 400 nodes in the topology graph.
>
> Sure, it might be a new physical anonymous device each time, but it
> most likely isn't. Even if it is, I don't think it makes sense to
> represent them as two distinct nodes (since there is no way to tell them
> apart).
>
> I suggest combining nodes in the graph that represent anonymous hops
> between two known devices.
>
>           / anon_1 \
> ..-> ip_a          ip_b -> ..  => .. -> ip_a -> anon_1 -> ip_b -> ..
>           \ anon_2 /
>
>
> Here is a patch implementing this behavior:
>
> http://www.4zm.org/files/2011/integration.py.diff
>
> Regards,
> Anders
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