On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Jamie Reid wrote:
I have been looking for a tool that will visualize traceroute data in a graph. Skitter looks ideal, but its availability is quite limited.
Is there a tool that you are currently using to represent large traceroute graphs that is available under a gpl/bsd/open license? Even something based on Dot or Neato?
For the RIS, we use dot, see: http://www.ris.ripe.net/cgi-bin/risas.cgi?as=3333&action=Search&startDay=20040123&startHour=00&startMin=00&startSec=00&endDay=20040123&endHour=14&endMin=7&endSec=35&rrcb=all&peer=all&type=U&outype=plot&sortby=stime&arrow=east&rank=100&plotsize=A4&.cgifields=type for an example, or select your own AS and graphical output in http://www.ris.ripe.net/cgi-bin/risas.cgi It is based on dot, plus about 2 pages of perl to pull the data from a DB. The nice thing about dot is that it does most of the work for you, including merging common parts of the paths and minimizing the number of crossing lines. Henk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal@ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre WWW: http://www.ripe.net/home/henk P.O.Box 10096 Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.5354414 1001 EB Amsterdam 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax: +31.20.5354445 The Netherlands The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sir, it's not that we cannot help you, it's that we don't want to help you. (Former) Sales rep at *** inc.