Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : netiathome Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.neti.gatech.edu/index.html * License : GPLv2 Description : collects network performance statistics from end-systems
[note: it seems that this package needs java to compile. I haven't tried compiling it with gcj.] Using [EMAIL PROTECTED] will make the Internet a better place! (and hopefully a little faster) [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an open-source software package that collects network performance statistics from end-systems. It has been written for and tested on the Windows, Linux, and Solaris operating systems, with testing for other operating systems to be completed soon. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is designed to run on end-user machines and will collect various statistics about Internet performance. These statistics will then be sent to a server at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), where they will be collected and made publicly available. We believe that this tool will give researchers much needed data on the end-to-end performance of the Internet, as measured by end-users. Our basic approach is to sniff packets sent to and received by the host and infer performance metrics based on these observed packets. [EMAIL PROTECTED] users will be able to select a privacy level that will determine what types of data will be gathered, and what will not be reported. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is designed to be an unobtrusive software system that runs quietly in the background with little or no intervention by the user, and using few resources. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is written in C++ and uses the popular Ethereal network analyzer to sniff packets. [EMAIL PROTECTED] also uses the zlib compression library. As previously mentioned, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been designed for the Windows, Linux, and Solaris operating systems and should work with various other *NIX flavors with little or no modification. [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been developed as a thesis project at Georgia Tech and has been designed in accordance with the CAIDA specifications on network statistics. In conclusion, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been designed to aid researchers who are studying Internet performance by providing a wealth of end-to-end data that has been previously unavailable. [EMAIL PROTECTED] includes the NETIMap application, written in Java, to encourage the use of [EMAIL PROTECTED] The NETIMap application, when run, will display a geographical map of the world. As Internet hosts are contacted (a website, for example), a dot is placed on that host's calculated coordinates. The coordinates are calculated using CAIDA's NetGeo database. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.3 Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO8859-15
