Bug#660152: ITP: pchar -- Characterize the bandwidth, latency and loss on network l$
Package: wnpp
Owner: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Severity: wishlist
A long time ago, pchar was included in the Debian archive. It is a
package capable of reporting the bandwidth of each hop along a
traceroute on the Internet, and I have not been able to find a sensible
replacement. Once in a while I need it, and every time I rediscover
that it was removed from Debian (BTW #195589), see also
<URL: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pchar.html >. I am tired of this
and want it back, so I intend to re-upload the package. Since its
retirement a new version is available, and I have updated the old source
to use this new upstream version.
* Package name : pchar
Version : 1.5
Upstream Author : Bruce A. Mah <bmah@acm.org>
* URL : http://www.kitchenlab.org/www/bmah/Software/pchar/
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: C++
Description : Characterize the bandwidth, latency and loss on network links
pchar is a reimplementation of the pathchar utility, written by Van
Jacobson. Both programs attempt to characterize the bandwidth,
latency, and loss of links along an end-to-end path through the
Internet. pchar works in both IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
Copyright:
This work was first produced by an employee of Sandia National
Laboratories under a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Sandia National Laboratories dedicates whatever right, title or
interest it may have in this software to the public. Although no
license from Sandia is needed to copy and use this software, copying
and using the software might infringe the rights of others. This
software is provided as-is. SANDIA DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
Contains software developed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and which
is "Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 The Regents of the University
of California."
If anyone know of a better tool already in the Debian archive, please
let me know and save me the work of maintaining pchar. :)
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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