[115139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traceroute management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Wed Jun 10 11:32:28 2009
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:31:32 -0500 (CDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Dylan Ebner <dylan.ebner@crlmed.com>
In-Reply-To: <6286FF05EBE33C4596F6C6C2376268670216017B@VS11.EXCHPROD.USA.NET>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
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Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc.
nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com
http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com
