A.2. Generic Sources

The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) maintains an extensive listing of measurement tools on the Web. The page at http://www.caida.org/tools/measurement has a number of tables grouping tools by function. Brief descriptions of each tool, including links to relevant sites, follow the tables. This listing includes both free and commercial tools and seems to be updated on a regular basis. Another CAIDA page, http://www.caida.org/tools/taxonomy/, provides a listing of tools by taxonomy.

Another web site maintaining a list of network-monitoring tools is http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html. In general, there are several collaborative Internet measurement projects that regularly introduce or discuss measurement tools. These include CAIDA and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), among others.

Other sites that you might want to look at include those that develop tools, such as http://moat.nlanr.net, http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/, and http://www.merit.edu. Don't forget special purpose sites. Security sites like http://www.cert.org and http://www.ciac.org/ciac/ may have links to useful tools. Keep your eyes open.

Finally, several RFCs discuss tools. The most comprehensive is RFC 1470. Unfortunately, it is quite dated. RFC 1713, also somewhat dated, deals with DNS tools, and RFC 2398 deals with tools for testing TCP implementation.

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