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- Short: GUI Traceroute/PING/Network Info Viewer
- Author: owagner@vapor.com
- Uploader: owagner@vapor.com
- Version: 2.11
- Type: comm/tcp
- Kurz: GUI Traceroute/PING/Network-Info-Anzeiger
-
- Long:
-
- NetInfo II is a network information viewer utility. It integrates
- the functionality of the well known standalone TRACEROUTE, PING, WHOIS
- and FINGER programs into a seamless GUI application.
-
- Features
- --------
-
- - "quick traceroute": Sends a series of packet in quick
- succession to get a route overview very fast, then
- does accurate timings for the individual hops
-
- - "ping": Sends a sequence of ICMP ECHO packets to a host
- to measure network latency and stability.
-
- - graphical display of hop min/last/max timings for
- TRACE
-
- - graphical display of ping times for PING
-
- - integrated smart WHOIS function: double-click on
- a IP, Host or Network column to automatically receive
- WHOIS information for the given object. NetInfo
- determines the WHOIS host to query.
-
- - automatically retrieves WHOIS network information
- for hosts
-
- - automatically scans destination host for Web (HTTP) and FTP
- server versions
-
- - history for all queried hosts
-
- - integrated FINGER client
-
- - integrated "classical" WHOIS client with on-disk cache
-
- - ARexx port
-
-
- Changes from Release 2.10 to 2.11
- ---------------------------------
- (see "Revision History" for full details)
-
- - fixed deadlock problems with multiple PING
- responses
- - improvements for dealing with the new V3 RIPE
- database
- - improvements in WHOIS network prefix lookup
- tables
-
- Changes from Release 2.8 to 2.10
- -------------------------------
- (see "Revision History" for full details)
-
- - graphical chart display of PING results
- - cache info/cleanup option
- - various bug fixes
-
- Changes from Release 2.8 to 2.9
- -------------------------------
- (see "Revision History" for full details)
-
- - fixed a problem in the traceroute code which would only
- show up with the upcoming Roadshow TCP/IP stack
-
- - minor cleanups
-
- Changes from Release 2.5 to 2.8
- -------------------------------
- (see "Revision History" for full details)
-
- - added support for classical PING
-
- Changes from Release 2.4 to 2.5
- -------------------------------
- (see "Revision History" for full details)
-
- - now supports Internic WHOIS redirection
-
- Changes from Release 2.4 to 2.5
- -------------------------------
- (see "Revision History" for full details)
-
- - now supports Internic WHOIS redirection
-
-
- Changes from Release 2.3 to 2.4
- -------------------------------
- (see "Revision History" for full details)
-
- - Flag images are now integrated to speed up
- operation and reduce disk consumption
-
- - Fixed screwed up catalogs introduced in 2.3
-
-
- Changes from Release 2.2 to 2.3
- -------------------------------
- (see "Revision History" for full details)
-
- - Domain to Whois server mapping is now
- external
- - PRINT functionality for FINGER/WHOIS results
- - ARexx port
-
-
- Requirements
- ------------
-
- NetInfo is (C) 1997-2001 Oliver Wagner <owagner@vapor.com>, All Rights
- Reserved.
-
- NetInfo works with Genesis, Miami, Roadshow and AmiTCP.
- "socket.library"-based TCP/IP stacks (as225r2 etc.) are not supported, and
- the traceroute functionality won't work with SOCKS (whois and finger will,
- though).
-
- NetInfo uses MUI 3.8 and the "NList" list classes by Gilles Masson.
-
- NetInfo is Shareware. The unregistered version will permit 10
- lookups before quitting. NetInfo can be registered with the
- included registration utility, or online at http://www.vapor.com/
-