jon@CS.UCL.AC.UK.UUCP (05/12/88)
I am conducting a survey of tools available for TCP/IP internetwork management that are in the public domain, or distributable freely, if with notice or whatever. I may include a list of some of the sorts of non-public domain tools that exist for comparison (e.g. some BSD handy things like rdist etc). I will collate answers and forward to this list when a reasonable set is accumulated. So far, the kind of tools I am thinking of fall loosely into three categories: A: Configuration management: e.g. UCL have a (n)awk based account management tool, that generates accounts, password files, mail aliases , nfs mount table parameters and so on. Programs for allocating addresses and names safely, would fall into this category. Programs for checking routing set ups for consistency might also go here. Domain name test suites might go here too. Programs for gathering traffic matrices fall into this category - and some network dimensioning tools might be handy (help answer where do i cut my ethernet type questions). B: Fault Detection: e.g. We have a version of ping that is driven by knowledge of the topology, (but does not use source route or record, unfortunately) and can therefore track where a link is down in a path. This is combined with a telnet level ping, to say what the state of any host is at the end of a path...it has a termcap driven graphic display... C: Performance management: e.g. tcpdump type programs that allow non-intrusive sensible analysis of protocols as they operate. e.g. traffic generators for UDP/TCP etc Note that I am interested mainly in collecting small tools that may be plugged together in a nice fashion rather than monolithic be all and end all systems, and I am biased towards simple existing network solutions - programs that depend on the more sophisticated features in gateways or hosts are no use, since all heterogeneous networks are lowest common denominator by defn. I would prefer not to restrict the list to Unix based tools, though I know shareware tends to come from that domain more than others. if answers could be of the form it would help: A/B/C name OS description Anon-FTP? Restrictions