NetBSD/usr.sbin/traceroute
tls 4147a3c54a Add new Makefile knob, USE_FORT, which extends USE_SSP by turning on the
FORTIFY_SOURCE feature of libssp, thus checking the size of arguments to
various string and memory copy and set functions (as well as a few system
calls and other miscellany) where known at function entry.  RedHat has
evidently built all "core system packages" with this option for some time.

This option should be used at the top of Makefiles (or Makefile.inc where
this is used for subdirectories) but after any setting of LIB.

This is only useful for userland code, and cannot be used in libc or in
any code which includes the libc internals, because it overrides certain
libc functions with macros.  Some effort has been made to make USE_FORT=yes
work correctly for a full-system build by having the bsd.sys.mk logic
disable the feature where it should not be used (libc, libssp iteself,
the kernel) but no attempt has been made to build the entire system with
USE_FORT and doing so will doubtless expose numerous bugs and misfeatures.

Adjust the system build so that all programs and libraries that are setuid,
directly handle network data (including serial comm data), perform
authentication, or appear likely to have (or have a history of having)
data-driven bugs (e.g. file(1)) are built with USE_FORT=yes by default,
with the exception of libc, which cannot use USE_FORT and thus uses
only USE_SSP by default.  Tested on i386 with no ill results; USE_FORT=no
per-directory or in a system build will disable if desired.
2007-05-28 12:06:17 +00:00
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as.c
as.h
CHANGES
gnuc.h
ifaddrlist.c
ifaddrlist.h
Makefile
mean.awk
median.awk
README
traceroute.8
traceroute.c
trrt2netbsd
version.c

$NetBSD: README,v 1.1.1.4 1997/10/03 22:25:20 christos Exp $
@(#) Header: README,v 1.8 97/01/05 04:15:36 leres Exp  (LBL)

TRACEROUTE 1.4
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Network Research Group
traceroute@ee.lbl.gov
ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/traceroute.tar.Z

Traceroute is a system administrators utility to trace the route
ip packets from the current system take in getting to some
destination system.  See the comments at the front of the
program for a description of its use.

This program uses raw ip sockets and must be run as root (or installed
setuid to root).

A couple of awk programs to massage the traceroute output are
included.  "mean.awk" and "median.awk" compute the mean and median time
to each hop, respectively.  I've found that something like

    traceroute -q 7 foo.somewhere >t
    awk -f median.awk t | xgraph

can give you a quick picture of the bad spots on a long path (median is
usually a better noise filter than mean).

Problems, bugs, questions, desirable enhancements, source code
contributions, etc., should be sent to the email address
"traceroute@ee.lbl.gov".