Looks like a dynamic tool…. now where can I find someone to teach me the ins and outs?
- Measure Forward IP Paths
skitter records each hop from a source to many destinations.
by incrementing the "time to live" (TTL)
of each IP packet header and recording replies from each
router (or hop) leading to the destination host. - Measure Round Trip Time
skitter collects round trip time (RTT) along with path (hop) data.
skitter uses ICMP echo requests as probes to a list of IP destinations. - Track Persistent Routing Changes
skitter data can provide indications of low-frequency persistent routing changes.
Correlations between RTT and time of day may reveal a change in either forward or
reverse path routing. - Visualize Network Connectivity
By probing the paths to many destinations IP addresses spread throughout the IPv4
address space, skitter data can be used to visualize the directed graph from a source to
much of the Internet.
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Damn you - another neat toy I want to play with. Sleep or poke at skitter .. oh the agony of descision!
New one on me. But being a tool and utility junkie I’ve just GOT to try it.