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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <address@hidden> described the package as
follows:
License: gpl
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Package: RMON2 Network Monitoring Agent
System name: rmon2
Type: non-GNU

Description:
The project is the first known implementation of a free and open source
RMON2 network monitoring agent.
As the name suggests, it is a software agent to monitor network traffic,
and gather statistics regarding OSI layers 3 to 7, as proposed by the IETF
standard RFC-2021.
For network admins and/or researches, perhaps it's the only mean to get
in touch with this kind of network monitoring agent, as there are many
commercial implementations (even hardware based).  As it's software based
and free, one only needs a cheap PC station (it runs on expensive PCs too,
and better) connected to an ethernet network.
It is not intended to spy or steal network data, only to traffic
characterization as proposed by the IETF RFC.
This is yet on development stage, but is very functional.
The agent also has an extended mode of operation, where it analyses
protocol iterations which are programmed by a manager using the PTSL
language.  This language was proposed by my teacher and research leader on
his PhD thesis, and is intended to be of free use.

RFC-2021: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2021.txt
PTSL: http://mutuca.metropoa.tche.br/Publications/tese_Luciano.ps.gz
RMON2 latest CVS snapshot (source code): 
http://mutuca.metropoa.tche.br/~rnsanchez/rmon2_00026.tar.gz


Other Software Required:
* GNU Make
* GNU gcc
* GNU Flex
* Yacc
* libpcap
* posix threads
* Net-SNMP, if one wants to access data via SNMP
* CURL, if running the extended mode
* GNU Pth as optional threads library
* Doxygen, if one wants to generate the source documentation


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