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There are a number of tools are no longer in development and/or not (any longer) supported by CAIDA. Note that while CAIDA provides no technical support for these tools, some are active and may still be of use to some.
To see current CAIDA tools, see CAIDA Tools - Overview of CAIDA Software Tools.
Unsupported Tools
The following tools are no longer in development and/or not (any longer) supported by CAIDA. Note that while CAIDA provides no technical support for these tools, some may still be of use to some. These tools are listed here for historical and archival purposes.
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The rows are colored by the Type of tool they are: Alias Resolution tools | Topology tools | Traffic tools | BGP tools | Library tools | Visualization tools | Security tools
| Name | Primary Author | Description | Release Date | Last Updated | Category | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cflowd (download) | Daniel McRobb | Former NetFlow analysis tool | 1998 | 2000 | Traffic | GNU GPL v2 |
| GeoPlot (download) | Ram Periakaruppan | Geographically plots nodes and links | 1999 | 1999 | Visualization: Topology | Research-use License |
| GTrace (download) | Ram Periakaruppan | Geographical front-end to traceroute | 1999 | 1999 | Visualization: Topology | Research-use License |
| MapNet (download) | Bradley Huffaker | Historical visualization of international backbone providers | 1997 | 2002 | Visualization: Topology | GNU GPL v2 |
| NetGeo (download) | Bradley Huffaker | Maps IPs and AS numbers to geographical locations | 1999 | 1999 | Geographic: Data | Research-use License |
| NeTraMet (download) | Nevil Brownlee | Realtime traffic flow measurement. | 2003 | 2007 | Workload: Measurement Analysis | GNU GPL v2 |
| Plankton (download) | Bradley Huffaker | Historical visualization of international cache topology | 1998 | 1998 | Visualization: Topology | GNU GPL v2 |
| skitter (not available for download) | Daniel McRobb | Reads in destinations and outputs traceroute paths. Deprecated by Archipelago | 1998 | 2008 | Topology: Measurement | Research-use License |
| FlowScan (download) | Dave Plonka | Graphs IP flow data for a view of network border traffic | 2001 | 2004 | Visualization: Traffic | GNU GPL v2 |
| dnstop (download) | Duane Wessels | Measures and displays tables of DNS network traffic | 2002 | 2002 | DNS Traffic | New BSD License |
| dsc (download) | Duane Wessels | Collects and displays statistics from DNS servers | 2007 | 2010 | DNS Traffic | New BSD License |
| Autofocus (download) | Cristian Estan | Internet traffic reports and time-series graphs | 2003 | 2003 | Traffic | Research-use License |
| Beluga (not available for download) | Ryan Koga | Interactive frontend to traceroute data | 2002 | 2006 | Visualization: Topology/Performance | Research-use License |
| Chart:Graph (download) | David Moore | Perl front-end to GNU plot and Xmgrace | 2006 | 2013 | Visualization | GNU GPL v2 |
| Cuttlefish (download) | Bradley Huffaker | Produces animated graphs showing diurnal and geographical patterns | 2006 | 2006 | Visualization: Traffic | GNU GPL v2 |
| DBATS (download) | Ken Keys | High performance time series database engine optimized for inserting/updating values for many series simultaneously. Deprecated in favor of InfluxDB | 2016 | 2016 | Database Library | GNU GPL v2+ |
| dnsstat (download) | Ken Keys | DNS traffic measurement utility | 1999 | 2006 | DNS Traffic | Research-use License |
| Hyperbolic Graph Generator (download) | Chiara Orsini | A set of tools to generate synthetic graphs embedded into a hyperbolic space and to test the greedy routing | 2014 | 2014 | Topology | GNU GPL v3 |
| Otter (download) | Bradley Huffaker | Visualizes arbitrary network data | 1998 | 2003 | Visualization: Topology | GNU GPL v2 |
| plot-latlong (download) | Young Hyun | Plots points on geographic maps | 2003 | 2005 | Geographic | Research-use License |
| PlotPaths (download) | Bradley Huffaker | Displays forward traceroute path data | 2001 | 2002 | Visualization: Topology | Research-use License |
| RouterToAsAssignment (download) | Ken Keys | Assigns each router from a router-level graph of the Internet to its Autonomous System (AS). Deprecated by bdrmapit. | 2010 | 2010 | Topology | Research-use License |
| straightenRV (download) | Patrick Verkaik | Parses and processes Route Views tables for ease of analysis | 2002 | 2009 | Topology: Data Analysis | Research-use License |
| topostats (download) | Young Hyun | Computes various statistics on network topologies | 2010 | 2010 | Topology | GNU GPL v3 |
| Walrus (download) | Young Hyun | Visualizes large graphs in three-dimensional space | 2001 | 2005 | Visualization: Topology | GNU GPL v2 |
Historical Tools Taxonomy
In 2004, CAIDA collected information on availability of Internet and TCP/IP measurement tools as well as network visualization resources. Tools were categorized with respect to their intent in an Internet Tools Taxonomy, kept available for historical purposes.