Quagga is a routing software suite, providing implementations of OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIP v1 and v2, RIPng and BGP-4 and supports IPv4 and IPv6 on Unix platforms, particularly FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris and NetBSD. Quagga also supports special BGP Route Reflector and Route Server behavior.
Category: Linux
Network Device Change Control (NDCC)
NDCC is a system of monitoring and recording changes to configurations of network equipment. It can store configuration snapshots for any text-based configs. It has been used to store configurations from Unix and Linux systems; Cisco routers, switches, load balancers, and firewalls; Foundry; NetScreen, Juniper, NetScaler, and others.
fping – Ping multiple hotsts at once
fping is a ping like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a host is up. fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of hosts to ping.
SmokePing – Latency Measurement Tool
SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network connection.
Main Features of SmokePing are,
- Measures latency as well as latency variation
- Wide variety of probes, ranging from simple ping to web requests and custom protocols
- Advanced alarm system, triggering on configurable 'latency patterns'
- Master/slave deployment model to run measurments from multiple sources in parallel
- Ajax based graph navigation
- Chart mode, to show the most interesting graphs first.
- Plug-able probes, alarms (matchers) and charting function.
- Written in perl for easy enhancability.
- Fully documented.
- Commandline option
How SmokePing Works
SmokePing sends test packets out to the net and measures the amount of time they need to travel from one place to the other and back.
For every round of measurement smokeping sends several packets. It then sorts the different round trip times and selects the median, (ie. the middle value). This means when there are 10 time values, value number 5 is selected and drawn. The other values are drawn as successively lighter shades of gray in the background (smoke).Sometimes a test packet is sent out but never returns. This is called packet-loss. The color of the median line changes according to the number of packets lost.
All this information together gives an indication of network health. For example, packet loss is something which should not happen at all. It can mean that a device in the middle of the link is overloaded or a router configuration somewhere is wrong.
Heavy fluctuation of the RTT (round trip time) values also indicate that the network is overloaded. This shows on the graph as smoke; the more smoke, the more fluctuation.
Smokeping is not limited to testing just the roundtrip time of the packets. It can also perform some task at the remote end ("probe"), like download a webpage. This will give a combined 'picture' of webserver availability and network health.
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There is an online demo for SmokePing here
Leaf Networks – A free Network Sharing platform
Leaf Networks™ is the Global Virtual Network Provider that is changing the way people use networks and networked devices, such as game consoles, media centers and servers, printers and network storage devices. Leaf Networks offers you a free service that gives you the ability easily form your own secure private network and bring together your networked devices with other members of your network.
Perlbal – Perl based Reverse proxy Load Balancer
Perlbal is a Perl-based reverse proxy load balancer and a web server which can server millions of requests a day. Perlbal is a single-threaded event-based server supporting HTTP load balancing and web serving. (more…)
Pound – Light weight Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer
Pound is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL license. (more…)