NetworkInfo/Discovery

Note that this is alpha software. Use at your own risk, and don't complain too loudly unless you are giving good advice. There is much work to be done with these modules, so check out the TODO or email me your comments, and lets get cracking.

NetworkInfo::Discovery is a toolset for the discovery of network information

and topology.

NetworkInfo::Register This module handles discovered interfaces, subnets,

                        and gateways. It can save and restore the the things
                        that we have discovered, and helps fill out unknown
                        details.

NetworkInfo::Discovery::Host represents all that we know about a

discovered host.

NetworkInfo::Discovery::Sniff is a discovery module that sniffs the local

                                segment to discover information about
                                interfaces.

NetworkInfo::Discovery::Traceroute is a discovery module that maps the hops

                                   from the local segment to other known
                                   interfaces, helping to show us the topology.

NetworkInfo::Discovery::Scan is a discovery module that scans ranges of

                                ip addresses for open ports, and to detect
                                new interfaces.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

So far we have only tested on the following setups. I am looking for contributors, even if you just want to install and run the test scripts.

Perl 5.6.1, Solaris 7
perl 5.8.0, linux-pcc
perl 5.8.0, RedHat Linux 8.0
perl 5.6.0, RedHat Linux 7.2
perl 5.6.1, RedHat Linux 7.2
perl 5.6.0, RedHat Linux 7.3
perl 5.6.1, RedHat Linux 7.3

AVAILABILITY

This module can be found in CPAN at http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/T/TS/TSCANLAN/ or at http://they.gotdns.org:88/~tscanlan/perl/

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

NetworkInfo::Discovery::Sniff

    Net-Pcap            0.04
    NetPacket           0.03

NetworkInfo::Discovery::Traceroute
Net-Traceroute 1.05

AUTHOR

Please send any questions, bugs, or contributions to Tom Scanlan <tscanlan@they.gotdns.org>

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