pchar for v6

Bob Fink fink@es.net
Wed, 03 Nov 1999 10:00:38 -0800


Look at this! pathchar for v6!  Neat. Good work Bruce.


Bob

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>To: pchar-announce@stennis.ca.sandia.gov
>Cc: bmah@ca.sandia.gov
>Subject: pchar-1.0 available
>From: bmah@ca.sandia.gov (Bruce A. Mah)
>Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 09:45:12 -0800
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>I'm pleased to announce the release of pchar-1.0, a reimplementation
>of Van Jacobson's pathchar utility for characterizing the individual
>hops of a path between two network hosts.  pchar works on both IPv4
>and IPv6 networks.
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>pchar has been tested on various versions of FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux,
>and IRIX, with the primary development on FreeBSD and Solaris.  pchar
>is written is C++, primarily using recent versions of gcc, but with
>some testing also on the SparcWorks C++ compiler.
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>Recent additions to pchar include: IPv6 support, better Linux
>compatability, a more comprehensive tracefile format, and mroe options
>for measurement and analysis.  A number of bugs have been fixed as
>well.
>
>More information, as well as downloadable source code, can be found at:
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>http://www.ca.sandia.gov/~bmah/Software/pchar/
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>Bruce.
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