NetMate 0.9.4

NetMate comes from Network Measurement and Accounting System and is a flexible and extensible network measurement tool (meter).
It can be used for accounting, delay/loss measurement, packet capturing and much more. The main advantage over other existing tools is that it can be easily extended due to its modular (class-based) structure and dynamic loadable packet processing and information export modules.
A GUI for controlling multiple meters and displaying measurement results is currently under development.
NMRSH is the NetMate Remote Shell which allows to remote control NetMate meters.
Main features:
- Flexibility and Extensibility
- Runtime loadable metric and export modules
- Modular architecture (C++ classes)
- Extensible Ruleset Format (XML-based)
- Portable Implementation
- GNU autotools
- OS tested: Linux (SuSE, Debian, Redhat), FreeBSD, Solaris
- Open Source (GPL)
- Configurable Multithreading
- IPv4 and IPv6 Support
- Multiple Classification Algorithms
- Automatic flow generation based on arbitrary packet attribute combinations
- Packet Sampling Support
- Secure Control Interface
- SSL Encryption
- Host-based Authentication (DNS, IP address)
- User-based Authentication (HTTP)
- Packet capturing using libpcap
- Support simultaneous measurement on multiple interfaces
- Currently only Ethernet, IPv4/IPv6, ICMP, TCP, UDP, data layer support
- Extensible to everything libpcap can capture
- Metric Modules
- Counter, bandwidth, jitter, port usage, packet length, RTP packet loss, packet ID generation (crc32 and md5), capture (tcpdump file), RTT (ICMP echo), text output (similar to tcpdump output), DNS latency, HTTP performance, TCP connection setup latency
- Export Modules
- Text file, binary file, SQL (under development), IPFIX (under development)
- Remote Control via Shell Tool or Standard Web Browser
- Interactive or batch processing of meter commands
Enhancements:
- Minor changes and bugfixes were made.