libparistraceroute/fakeroute

fakeroute is a simple tool that simulates network topologies by intercepting traceroute-like probes towards a set of IP addresses. Topologies are made of text files describing the successive links, allowing for the presence of load balancers. The tool has been designed to test traceroute-like programs.

libparistraceroute

libparistraceroute is a library written in C dedicated to active network measurements. Some example are also provided, such as paris-ping and the new implementation of paris-traceroute.

Installation

Installation steps are detailed here:

https://github.com/libparistraceroute/libparistraceroute/wiki/Installation

We recommend that you use the installation with git to use the last version of libparistraceroute.

Documentation

For further details about libparistraceroute, we refer the reader to the wiki:

https://github.com/libparistraceroute/libparistraceroute/wiki/

fakeroute's Issues

fakeroute uses real allocated ip addresses for test networks

fakeroute uses 1.1.1.X as example targets. However, these IP addresses actually exist and so if fakeroute is not running or if it dies (currently trying to work out why it dies sometimes) then packets get sent out over the public internet instead which may result in strange results.

Instead either a documentation network: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737 or local addresses in 127.0.0.0/8 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6890 should be used.

Empty README.rst as well as README.md which has content

README.rst should probably be deleted though it is referenced by setup.py so that might also need to be changed.