My company uses it's internet connection primarily for VPN tunneling. I have always wanted a tool that I can enter the peer ip addresses and it will every 8 or 12 hours run a traceroute and log it so I can build historical maps of the path our traffic is taking. Has anyone ever seen any apps like this, preferably something that is free. Thanks
Try SmokePing (which includes SmokeTrace now): http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ You could also just use a cronjob and output the results to a flat file or database if you prefer something home grown. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: Dylan Ebner [mailto:dylan.ebner@crlmed.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 3:28 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Traceroute management My company uses it's internet connection primarily for VPN tunneling. I have always wanted a tool that I can enter the peer ip addresses and it will every 8 or 12 hours run a traceroute and log it so I can build historical maps of the path our traffic is taking. Has anyone ever seen any apps like this, preferably something that is free. Thanks
BGPlay might be what you are looking for. I believe you can replay certain time periods. http://bgplay.routeviews.org/bgplay/ Jason
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Berkman [mailto:scott@sberkman.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 3:45 PM To: 'Dylan Ebner'; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Traceroute management
Try SmokePing (which includes SmokeTrace now): http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
You could also just use a cronjob and output the results to a flat file or database if you prefer something home grown.
-Scott
-----Original Message----- From: Dylan Ebner [mailto:dylan.ebner@crlmed.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 3:28 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Traceroute management
My company uses it's internet connection primarily for VPN tunneling. I have always wanted a tool that I can enter the peer ip addresses and it will every 8 or 12 hours run a traceroute and log it so I can build historical maps of the path our traffic is taking. Has anyone ever seen any apps like this, preferably something that is free.
Thanks
Hmm, take a look at pingplotter Arie On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Dylan Ebner <dylan.ebner@crlmed.com> wrote:
My company uses it's internet connection primarily for VPN tunneling. I have always wanted a tool that I can enter the peer ip addresses and it will every 8 or 12 hours run a traceroute and log it so I can build historical maps of the path our traffic is taking. Has anyone ever seen any apps like this, preferably something that is free.
Thanks
arievayner@gmail.com (Arie Vayner) wrote:
Hmm, take a look at pingplotter
From what I understand, Dylan is interested in something that archives traceroutes and compares them to former versions. The only tool I know that does this is something Gert Döring (gert@space.net) hacked a couple of years ago. Maybe he'd share it with you. It's a Perl script capable of intelligently filtering hops and basically showing you when your packets take a new path to their destination. Cheers, Elmar.
mon ( http://mon.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page ) comes with traceroute.monitor It keeps a state file of current routes and logs only changes. You can specify equivalent hops, hops to ignore, StopAt addresses, and UnexpectedHops. Since it is part of mon, it is easy to alert on a route change. The IgnoreHop feature was probably added after the mon release. I can provide a newer version if IgnoreHop would be useful. Jon
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Dylan Ebner wrote:
My company uses it's internet connection primarily for VPN tunneling. I have always wanted a tool that I can enter the peer ip addresses and it will every 8 or 12 hours run a traceroute and log it so I can build historical maps of the path our traffic is taking. Has anyone ever seen any apps like this, preferably something that is free.
We ended up writing our own, take a look at perl Net::Traceroute throw it in a DB with DBI and then graph it with graphviz.
<> Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com
Best thing I've seen is from the network guys at NCAR/UCAR. And it has the right price too! http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/nets/tools/trcheck/ Dylan Ebner wrote:
My company uses it's internet connection primarily for VPN tunneling. I have always wanted a tool that I can enter the peer ip addresses and it will every 8 or 12 hours run a traceroute and log it so I can build historical maps of the path our traffic is taking. Has anyone ever seen any apps like this, preferably something that is free.
Thanks
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