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FYI on a Network Management Tool Catalog: Tools for Monitoring and Debugging TCP/IP Internets and Interconnected Devices
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Network Working Group R. Stine, Editor
Request for Comments: 1147 SPARTA, Inc.
FYI: 2 April 1990
FYI on a Network Management Tool Catalog:
Tools for Monitoring and Debugging TCP/IP Internets
and Interconnected Devices
Status of this Memo
The goal of this FYI memo is to provide practical informa-
tion to site administrators and network managers. This memo
provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify any standard. It is not a statement of IAB pol-
icy or recommendations. Comments, critiques, and new or
updated tool descriptions are welcome, and should be sent to
Robert Stine, at , or to the NOCTools work-
ing group, at .
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
1. Introduction
This catalog contains descriptions of several tools avail-
able to assist network managers in debugging and maintaining
TCP/IP internets and interconnected communications
resources. Entries in the catalog tell what a tool does,
how it works, and how it can be obtained.
The NOCTools Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF) compiled this catalog in 1989. Future editions
will be produced as IETF members become aware of tools that
should be included, and of deficiencies or inaccuracies.
Developing an edition oriented to the OSI protocol suite is
also contemplated.
The tools described in this catalog are in no way endorsed
by the IETF. For the most part, we have neither evaluated
the tools in this catalog, nor validated their descriptions.
Most of the descriptions of commercial tools have been pro-
vided by vendors. Caveat Emptor.
1.1 Purpose
The practice of re-inventing the wheel seems endemic to the
field of data communications. The primary goal of this
IETF NOCTools Working Group