[ale] topology tester

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, David S. Jackson wrote:

> I was wondering if there are some applications around that test
> network topologies to provide a "what's broken, what's working"
> sort of display about your network neighborhood.  (Beyond your
> LAN, that is.)
>
> My ISP has been having some problems, but I'd like to know if
> there are some other tools that map topology out and display a
> visual image of the traceroutes between you and your favorite
> locations on the Net.  It would be sort of like a traffic watch
> for your local freeways.  Get a heads-up on what backbones are
> having problems, where there are dead routers, stuff like that.
> Does anyone know of such a tool?

I'm not sure if such a tool exists. The closest thing I can think of is Visual
Route.

http://www.visualware.com

It works as well as one can expect this sort of thing to work.
-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

>


--
To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.