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mper Probing Engine
mper is a probing engine that clients can use to conduct network measurements using ICMP, UDP, and TCP probes.

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mper is licensed under GPLv2. The latest version of mper (v0.4.1) was released on Jun 27, 2012 (read the CHANGES).

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Dependencies

Currently, you must write mper clients in Ruby and use the rb-mperio RubyGem to communicate with mper. The rb-mperio RubyGem includes sample scripts for performing pings and traceroutes that demonstrate how to write measurement scripts with mper.

Authors

mper is written and maintained by Young Hyun as a part of CAIDA's work on the Archipelago Measurement Infrastructure

mper is based on scamper, written and maintained by Matthew Luckie, member of the WAND group in the Computer Science Department at the University of Waikato.

Thanks to Alistair King for porting code from newer scamper releases into mper in June-Sept 2011.

  Last Modified: Fri Feb-15-2013 13:2:31 PDT
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