Display Logical Links Between Nodes

[bpe2]

Currently, only physical links are displayed between two nodes
It would be useful to display logical links between nodes to represent a relationship/connection between them, for example:

• Traffic flows
• Sidelink connections between wireless nodes
• TCP connections
• WiFi association

From the module, the user should be able to:

• Show/hide the link
• set an offset/position of the line
• adjust appearance of the line:
  • Color
  • Thickness
  • Solid/Dashed

[tomhenderson]

Agreed on this, and wondering about also adding routes (multi-hop paths) to show routing paths, paths that traffic flows are actually traversing, etc. Not sure if you consider that a separate feature request or an extension of this.

[igs3000]

Displaying this kind of links are good while visualizing wired networks.
But, I believe that displaying 'too much logical link with lines' while visualizing a wireless ad hoc network scenario will spoil the elegance of 'wireless' nature of that scenario.

From the module, the user should be able to:

Show/hide the link
set an offset/position of the line
adjust appearance of the line:
Color
Thickness
Solid/Dashed

This is good—So, in such case, we may use dotted lines of very light colors without disturbing the very 'wireless nature' of the scenario.

Just a thought.

[YueLester]

How is this work going? I try to show the communication process in the network. For example, the communication status between nodes or the process of sending and receiving packets can be displayed.