Hi Axel, hi OONI folks, [Note: [email protected], Cc'd, is publicly archived.]
Axel Beckert wrote (06 May 2014 16:07:18 GMT) : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > * Package name : tracebox > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Gregory Detal <[email protected]> et al. > * URL or Web page : http://www.tracebox.org/ > * License : GPLv2+ > Description : Middlebox Detection Tool > Tracebox is a tool that allows to detect middleboxes on any paths, i.e., > between a source and any destination. Tracebox can be viewed as a tool > similar to traceroute as it uses ICMP replies to identify changes in the > packets. The fact that tracebox is able to detect middleboxes comes from > the observation that ICMP messages are often not as defined in > RFC792. Indeed it is quite common to receive a ICMP Time-to-Live > exceeded message with the original datagram instead of 64 bits as > described in the standard. This is caused by operating systems > configured to reply with full ICMP (e.g., Linux, Cisco IOS-XR, etc.) as > well as the ICMP Multi-Part Messages extension that standardize the fact > that routers using MPLS tunnels replies and ICMP message containing the > full datagram. > There seems a start of Debian packaging in the upstream repository, but > it's not complete (missing debian/copyright), and doesn't build a > working package, at least not when being used from a plain git checkout. > It seems that a prerequisite for packaging tracebox is packaging > libcrafter: https://github.com/pellegre/libcrafter -- it's included in > https://github.com/tracebox/tracebox as a git submodule. This sounds like something potentially useful for OONI (https://ooni.torproject.org/). Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
