[Scamper-dev] scamper data collection

Bradley Huffaker bhuffake at caida.org
Thu Jul 29 17:23:08 PDT 2004


I assume you would like to be able to store all this information about the 
reply(ies) from the destination as well.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:31:13AM -0700, Young Hyun wrote:
> For the purposes of resolving router aliases and for finger printing end
> hosts, we may want to store more information about the TTL-expired packet
> received at all hops (including the intermediate hops).  Currently,
> scamper_hop has hardcoded fields for address and TTLs, but it would be
> good if some extensible mechanism could allow the optional storage of
> other data like TOS, ID, and flags from the IP header and the body of the
> ICMP packet.
> 
> This feature isn't required, but it would be very nice to have if it won't
> be too hard to support, since at the moment, skitter is throwing away a
> lot of potentially useful data.  A crude approximation of this feature
> would be the optional storage of the entire TTL-expired packet at each
> hop.
> 
>  --Young
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