netreg-users: NetReg... NetMon?

[David Nolan]

On 1/31/07, Matthew Brennan <mbrennan at kaydongroup.com> wrote:
> After much playing around I finally understand how NetReg works and
> was able to get it up and running in my test environment. I
> experimented with the WPI branch, but in the end I failed at getting
> that to work (I think mostly because it relies on some stuff that I
> have no clue how to populate the tables, as Frank had warned me). At
> this point I would like to look at NetMon / NetConf and see how those
> integrate, however I am having dificulty finding information on these
> packages. While I can find some of the package on the CVS system, I
> can not seem to find any form of installation instructions, and the
> interface portions seem to either be not included on CVS, or somehow
> obscured. If anyone could point me to a set of install instructions,
> or perhaps an actual release, it would be appreciated.
>

Matt,

NetMon is one of multiple sister projects to NetReg thats been written
at CMU.  Unfortunately, like all the other related projects, it
suffers from a lack of documentation, installation instructions, or
even a clean released version.  NetMon was initially released together
with NetReg, but was eventually split into its own tree because it was
making NetReg look even bigger & scarier then it really was.
Unfortunately we never seem to have the time necessary to devote to
cleaning up & releasing the other systems.  (Particularly right now,
our group is short staffed and looking for new programmers.)

That said, it is in use at a couple other sites, with some degree of
success.  All of the code is in CVS

NetConf is just a set of perl libraries, used by NetReg & NetMon when
interacting with swiches, routers and wireless access points.


-David Nolan
 Network Software Designer
 Carnegie Mellon University