These NIKHEF network tools are excellent compared to most versions provided by OS vendors. The Cisco-style ping is one of the best I've encountered. Sadly, the author and maintainer of this code, Eric Wassenaar, died in April 2000. This assessment is based on the content of the messages included below. The code now residing in the 'nikhef_mirror' directory was obtained from ftp://ftp.nikhef.nl/pub/network prior to its removal after Eric's death. Apparently all official development at NIKHEF has ended. The directory 'linux_patches' contains patches for ping and traceroute so they compile on Linux. No guarantees though... The 'host' code is now being maintained by Greg A. Woods and is available at: http://www.weird.com/~woods/projects/host.html ------------- To: Reseaux IP Europeens , [...] From: RIPE Hostcount Maintainer Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:49:26 +0200 Subject: RIPE Region Hostcount for March 2000 Dear All, ----------------------------------------------------------- This month's hostcount is dedicated to Eric Wassenaar, who was sadly killed in a traffic accident recently. Eric was the maintainer of the host tool which we use to perform the hostcount, and has helped us numerous times in the past in this context. We thank you Eric. ----------------------------------------------------------- Below is the hostcount for March 2000. [...] Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC ------------- From: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.Com (Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer) Subject: Re: snoop and network-interface transfer speed Date: 18 May 2000 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <8g0caj$n9e$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com> References: <391FCAD4.4AF6F4D2@int.tele.dk> <8foht1$eli$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com> <391FE749.FEB930F@int.tele.dk> <8fortb$if3$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com> <8fou5m$48n$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8fp6h5$eli$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <1rpuqn5xrm.fsf@haey.ifi.uio.no> Mail-Copies-To: never X-Complaints-To: usenet@new-usenet.uk.sun.com X-Trace: new-usenet.uk.sun.com 958641299 23854 129.159.201.52 (18 May 2000 09:14:59 GMT) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 May 2000 09:14:59 GMT Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris [[ PLEASE DON'T SEND ME EMAIL COPIES OF POSTINGS ]] Kjetil Torgrim Homme writes: >The collision rate means NOTHING. Look for packet loss instead. >Install the ping from nikhef[1], it has a nice Cisco-style ping. >[1] By Eric Wassenaar Eric Wassenaar was killed in an accident on April 10th. His user account/webpages were subsequently removed. You can still find Eric's ping on ftp.nikhef.nl. I do not know who inherited these tools. Casper -- Expressed in this posting are my opinions. They are in no way related to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems. Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth. -------------