Package: wnpp Owner: Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> Severity: wishlist
A long time ago, pchar was included in the Debian archive. It is a package capable of reporting the bandwidth of each hop along a traceroute on the Internet, and I have not been able to find a sensible replacement. Once in a while I need it, and every time I rediscover that it was removed from Debian (BTW #195589), see also <URL: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pchar.html >. I am tired of this and want it back, so I intend to re-upload the package. Since its retirement a new version is available, and I have updated the old source to use this new upstream version. * Package name : pchar Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Bruce A. Mah <b...@acm.org> * URL : http://www.kitchenlab.org/www/bmah/Software/pchar/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : Characterize the bandwidth, latency and loss on network links pchar is a reimplementation of the pathchar utility, written by Van Jacobson. Both programs attempt to characterize the bandwidth, latency, and loss of links along an end-to-end path through the Internet. pchar works in both IPv4 and IPv6 networks. Copyright: This work was first produced by an employee of Sandia National Laboratories under a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy. Sandia National Laboratories dedicates whatever right, title or interest it may have in this software to the public. Although no license from Sandia is needed to copy and use this software, copying and using the software might infringe the rights of others. This software is provided as-is. SANDIA DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. Contains software developed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and which is "Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 The Regents of the University of California." If anyone know of a better tool already in the Debian archive, please let me know and save me the work of maintaining pchar. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
