Bug#155685: ITP: fft -- The alternative traceroute tool for network (reverse) engineers
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-06
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : fft
Version : 1.99-beta6
Upstream Author : Nils McCarthy <nils@shkoo.com>
* URL : http://www.mainnerve.com/fft/
* License : Simple, permissive, non-copyleft; BSD-ish [1]
Description : The alternative traceroute tool for network (reverse) engineers
FFT is a sort of 'traceroute' that often works much faster (than the
commonly-used Van Jacobson method) and goes through many configurations
of packet-filter based firewalls. It also has numerous other options
including AS number lookups, netblock name lookups, et al.
Rather than launching UDP probes in an attempt to elicit ICMP
TIME_EXCEEDED, FFT accomplishes substantively the same effect using TCP
SYN or FIN probes, listening for both TIME_EXCEEDED messages or TCP_RST
from firewalls or other gateways in the path.
FFT performs a function similar to that of the tcptraceroute package but
has different features. The output is quite different from traceroute
but has abilities which tcptraceroute lacks.
[1] Copyright notice from fft.c:
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that this
copyright and permission notice appear in all copies.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ITS AUTHORS DISCLAIM ALL
WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF
USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR
OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
Authors:
- Nils McCarthy <nils@shkoo.com> original author
- MainNerve Staff <software@mainnerve.com>
- Ugen Antsilevitch <ugen@xonix.com>
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux epoch 2.4.17preempt1 #1 Fri Feb 1 23:07:28 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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