Jamshid,
OK, I get the idea, five responses in five minutes. A distribution of my multi-featured ping is available from ftp://ftp.gated.cornell.edu/pub/tools/ping.tar.Z.
Jeff
Dare I ask the same question for traceroute? We have a version with hacks for MTU discovery, source routing, and loss statistics; are there other features that people have added?
--Jamshid
There is "prtraceroute" by RIPE's PRIDE project. prtraceroute takes normal traceroute output, and annotates it by referring to data in the Global Routing Registry (the RIPE database, the Routing Arbiter Routing Registry, and others soon). The expanded data includes the AS of each router that is encountered, plus annotations about whether the route taken by traceroute is the primary, secondary, etc. route according to policy registered in the Routing Registry. prtraceroute has been running for a long time using RIPE data; I believe a new version is due out soon. Tony Bates can elaborate on this, I think. --Dale Johnson