read about gnucleus on cybergeography.org- I never knew the client had an inbuilt visualization tool!!

it's great, exactly the feature i was looking for!

for those of you also interested in network visualization,
there is an animated python module called "gnutella Vision" on

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Erachna/gtv/

it's pretty slow but a good tool because it's dynamic and displays the files on the individual hosts.

greets,
noci

is there any possibility in the current version to display the IP number of the hosts appearing on the map?

that way, one could check out the geographical relationship of the hosts via traceroute, would be an interesting thing.

If you can figure out a way to get it into the graphviz script, I will add it.

Id especially like to make that map an interactive image map.

the *.txt file in the /Graphing subfolder seems to be the input file for "neato"

the structure of it is something like this

graph GnutellaNet
{
size="10,10"
graph[center="5.00,5.00"]
node [shape=circle,width=.2,height=.2,label=""]

0 [label="You", fontsize=10, style=filled, color=red, width=.100, height=.100]

0 -- 61 [color=orange]
0 -- 140 [color=orange]
0 -- 940 [color=orange]
0 -- 1315 [color=orange]
0 -- 1739 [color=orange]
0 -- 1921 [color=orange]

61 [shape=house,width=.100,height=.100]
140 [shape=house,width=.101,height=.101]
940 [shape=house,width=.101,height=.101]
1315 [shape=house,width=.100,height=.100]
1739 [shape=house,width=.220,height=.220]
1921 [shape=house,width=.220,height=.220]

}

from the neato manual i take that the 2nd block describes the layout of the nodes.
it also says it's possible to label every single node, using a code string like this:

61 [shape=house,width=.100,height=.100,label="whatever "]

so if gnucleus generated a txt file setting the individual node's IP address as the "label" value, the drawn graph should show all of the nodes' IPs.

not sure whether this is what you meant, or were you referring to the script gnucleus uses to generate the txt file?

can't code, so no idea for that......;P