[Scamper-dev] scamper notes draft 2

[Matthew Luckie]

the notes look reasonable.  just a few questions:

1. in the case where scamper has an address A from list L1 in the active 
list and then the list manager passes the same address A to scamper from 
list L2, does scamper duplicate the trace output?  i thought this was 
the idea a few days ago, but the implementation of the hold list seems 
to suggest otherwise.  or i'm not understanding.

2. perhaps another idea is to allow scamper to have a control socket 
[properly authenticated depending on socket domain, of course] which 
would allow for rudimentary monitoring of the scamper process outside of 
the machine, as well as control tasks such as feeding scamper addresses.

3. perhaps XML to communicate addresses and cycles to scamper.  having 
never used libxml before, perhaps i am just talking garbage.  but the 
thought of being able to communicate the tests (traceroute / pmtu / src 
routing) and the method (icmp echo / udp / tcp syn) per address seems 
attractive.