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From: jon@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Network Management
Message-ID: <8805301617.AA12643@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 30 May 88 14:45:03 GMT
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A couple of weeks ago i sent a message to this list asking
about management tools for TCP/IP type networks. 

One ground rule was the public availability of said tools
(i.e. exclude expensive things, but include things at least
binary avail like tcpdump).

The categories for tools of interest were:

configuration
e.g. 	gated/rip/egp/routed 	- routes
	bind			- names
	rdist			- info distrib.
	info-servers		- distr. info
	db			- ucl distr. account
				  management
	thorn ds		- a nearly real X.500 (but over TCP						  as well as OSI)
				  directory service
	

fault finding/performance 
	ping			- liveness/reachability/errors
	ttcp			- udp/tcp traffic gen.
	etherfind/tcpdump	- protocol behaviour
				- intruder detection...


statistics
	NSStat			- overall net stats
	probe			- ucl icmp based reachability
				  prog.
	flakeway		- ucl PC based fake
				  arpanet
	map			- UCL traffic analyser
				  helps decide where to
				  partition your LAN	

So far i've had 6 replies saying "gosh that would be
a very useful list of info. to collate" and
0 replies saying, "heres a really neat program for
doing everything and it runs on anything bigger than 
a pocket calculator, speaks LAT, X.25, can parse
ASN.1 and pretty print an X.400 header. it also
makes excuses for..."

can anyone help...

jon