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    Fri, 10 Sep 2004

    TraceProto

    http://traceproto.sourceforge.net/
    Traceproto is a traceroute replacement written in c that allows the user to specify the protocol and port to trace to. It currently supports tcp, udp, and icmp traces with the possibility of others in the future.

    see also http://michael.toren.net/code/tcptraceroute/ http://www.mainnerve.com/lft/ http://wiki.hping.org/

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    BGP Looking Glass
    Lists:
    http://www.nanog.org/lookingglass.html
    http://www.traceroute.org/ (traceroute)
    http://www.mkm.ro/lg/

    http://looking-glass.connect.com.au/
    http://looking-glass.optus.net.au/
    http://lg.roedu.net/lg

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    BGP to South Africa
    musa-gw extract

    router bgp 19232
     neighbor 32.113.103.65 remote-as 2686
     neighbor 32.113.103.65 description BGP to zajhbg2101er2 AT&T
     neighbor 168.209.120.173 remote-as 3741
     neighbor 168.209.120.173 description BGP to IS, route advertisement session
     neighbor 168.209.255.250 remote-as 3741
     neighbor 168.209.255.250 description International feed from IS
    
    But AT&T route gets lost
    http://looking-glass.optus.net.au/
    BGP routing table entry for 168.210.50.0/24, version 2285181011
    Paths: (3 available, no best path)
      Not advertised to any peer
      7473 3561 1273 3741 19232, (aggregated by 19232 168.210.50.94)
        203.208.148.57 (inaccessible) from 203.202.143.24 (203.202.143.24)
          Origin IGP, localpref 52, valid, internal, atomic-aggregate
          Community: 7473:12075 7474:1403
          Originator: 203.202.143.15, Cluster list: 0.0.0.1
      7473 3561 1273 3741 19232, (aggregated by 19232 168.210.50.94)
        203.208.148.57 (inaccessible) from 203.202.143.19 (203.202.143.19)
          Origin IGP, localpref 52, valid, internal, atomic-aggregate
          Community: 7473:12075 7474:1403
          Originator: 203.202.143.15, Cluster list: 0.0.0.1
      7473 3561 1273 3741 19232, (aggregated by 19232 168.210.50.94)
        203.208.148.57 (inaccessible) from 203.202.143.20 (203.202.143.20)
          Origin IGP, localpref 52, valid, internal, atomic-aggregate
          Community: 7473:12075 7474:1403
          Originator: 203.202.143.15, Cluster list: 0.0.0.1
    
    No mention of 3741 anywhere. Is the /24 being filtered, or hidden in a 168.210.0.0/16 aggregation ...
    BGP routing table entry for 168.210.0.0/16, version 2286661526
    Paths: (3 available, best #3)
      Not advertised to any peer
      7473 3356 7018 3741
        203.208.148.5 from 203.202.143.20 (203.202.143.20)
          Origin IGP, localpref 53, valid, internal
          Community: 7473:12065 7474:1403
          Originator: 203.202.143.16, Cluster list: 0.0.0.1
    ...
    

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    tv_grab_dvb
    http://www.darkskiez.co.uk/index.php?page=tv_grab_dvb
    A Linux program to dump DVB EPG info in xmltv format.. i.e. Extract the TV Guide from the digital TV broadcasts.

    Tune into a multiplex with whatever you like, dvbtune, mplayer, mythtv and run:
    tv_grab_dvb [-t timeout] > whatson.xml

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    FCKeditor - the text editor for the Internet

    http://www.fckeditor.net/
    This HTML WYSIWYG text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors like Word. It's really lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation in the client computer.

    demo screen

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