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pathspider(1) User Commands pathspider(1)

NAME

pathspider - Internet Path Transparency Measurement Tool

SYNOPSIS

usage: pathspider [-h] [-s] [-i INTERFACE] [-w WORKERS] [--input INPUTFILE] [--output OUTPUTFILE] [-v] PLUGIN ...

DESCRIPTION

For each target PATHspider enqueues a job, to be distributed amongst the worker threads when available. Each worker performs one connection with the “A” configuration and one connection with the “B” configuration. The “A” configuration will always be connected first and serves as the base line measurement, followed by the “B” configuration.

OPTIONS

Optional Arguments:

show this help message and exit
run in standalone mode. this is the default mode (and currently the only supported mode). in the future, mplane will be supported as a mode of operation.
the interface to use for the observer
number of workers to use
a file containing a list of remote hosts to test, with any accompanying metadata expected by the pathspider test. this file should be formatted as a commaseperated values file. Defaults to standard input.
the file to output results data to. Defaults to standard output.
log debug-level output.

Plugins:

TCP Fast Open
Explicit Congestion Notification
Transport Layer Security
DiffServ Codepoints
DNS resolution for hostnames to IPv4 and v6 addresses

EXAMPLES

You can run a small study using ECNSpider and the included webinput.csv file to measure path transparency to ECN for a small selection of web servers:


# pathspider -i eth0 ecn \
</usr/share/doc/pathspider/examples/webinput.csv \
>/tmp/results.txt

REPORTING BUGS

Bugs relating to the operation of PATHspider should be filed against the pathspider package using reportbug(1).

COPYRIGHT

PATHspider is copyrighted by the authors of PATHspider. It is made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, or at your option any later version, which can be found at:


/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

This manual page was written for Debian by Iain R. Learmonth <irl@debian.org> but may be used by others under the same terms.

SEE ALSO

PATHspider provides HTML documentation that explains the development of PATHspider plugins. This is installed with the pathspider package and can be found at:


/usr/share/doc/pathspider/html/index.html

The PATHspider website can be found at https://pathspider.net/.

October 2016 MAMI Project