Package-propsal: Net_Traceroute

From: Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:19:48 +0000
Subject: Package-propsal: Net_Traceroute
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Hi, there are Net_Ping and similar as OS-independent wrapper-classes. Looking for a traceroute-interface (parsing of traceroute-output via a wrapper) we'd like to propose Net_Traceroute. Since a good job was done when developing Net_Ping I'd propose basing it on Net_Ping. Normally traceroute can't be used by every user. But it's possible to setuid on traceroute or use sudo and enable a special user (webserver- user) to use traceroute. The sudo-version is what we'd use in this situation. In general calling sudo or whatever can be accomplished by choosing a $traceroutePath="/bin/sudo traceroute" or similar - quite easy. Interested? Your votes please. Stefan **************************************************** SpeedPartner, Inh. Michael Metz Neukirchener Str. 57, 41470 Neuss, Germany Tel.: +49-2137 / 929 829, Fax: +49-2137 / 137 17 E-Mail: info@speedpartner.de ****************************************************

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