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Anonymous Nate McKay

ABOUT

  • dotMTR is a modern, graphically enhanced MTR implementation created for Windows.
  • dotMTR is written in C# for version 3.5 of the .NET Framework
  • dotMTR is copyright 2010 Nate McKay (natemckay@gmail.com)
  • dotMTR is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt)

RELEASE INFORMATION

  • Version 0.8.0 (released October 20, 2010)

GENERAL INFORMATION

  • dotMTR can be called with the Windows /TraceDest= switch to populate a destination (i.e. dotMTR.exe /TraceDest=1.1.1.1)
  • Tracing is multithreaded and performed asynchronously
  • One packet per hop is sent for each trace up to the max TTL regardless of distance to target

KNOWN ISSUES

  • Memory usage is probably somewhat high for such an application
  • Graph scaling could be improved in some circumstances
  • There is currently no way to set or save preferences (though some things can be changed via dotMTR.exe.confg)

UPCOMING MILESTONE GOALS

  • Ability to perform TCP traceroutes (maybe some layer 7 stuff too...)
  • Bring memory utilization down a bit
  • Provide visual representation of packet loss
  • Options & preferences
  • Streamline classes
  • Make better use of events for statistics updates etc.
  • Better align graph edge w/ most recent point updates
  • Swap trace panels?
  • Proper cleanup of graph?
  • Bug fixes (patches are greatly appreciated)

CREDITS & THANKS

  • Grid display leverages SourceGrid (http://sourcegrid.codeplex.com/ http://bitbucket.org/dariusdamalakas/sourcegrid/)
  • Graph display leverages ZedGraph (http://zedgraph.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page)
  • Thread management leverages SmartThreadPool (http://smartthreadpool.codeplex.com/ http://www.codeproject.com/KB/threads/smartthreadpool.aspx)
  • Command line processing leverages TestAPI (http://testapi.codeplex.com/)
  • Progress indicator leverages Circular Progress Indicator (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/progress/ProgressIndicator.aspx)
  • Message passing implemented with queueing code by William Stacey, MVP (staceyw@mvps.org)
  • Icon adapted from kfouleggs.png included in the Crystal Project icon theme set (http://everaldo.com/crystal/)
  • Inspiration courtesty of the hackers behind the original MTR (http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/)
  • Thanks go to the various sites on the 'net hosting free code, code examples, and associated discussion

NOTES

  • All libraries are copyright their respective authors and are redistributed without modification (except for ZedGraph)
  • The included ZedGraph library was compiled from source with one patch to fix tooltip flickering (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3061209&group_id=114675&atid=669144)
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