NeDi Network Discovery and Mapping

Introduction
Network Discovery. That is the main purpose of NeDi described by its author Remo Rickli, in 2001. It will try to discover not only networks devices but including any host connected to the network. It will keep the inventory and track any change. If a device becomes unreachable it will sent email notification.
And now after [...]

SmokePing Open Source Network Latency Grapher

Introduction
If we talk about network quality, as i know, there are three things we should monitor:

Latency
It is the time needed for the sender to send a packet and get reply. Other term is Round Trip. Propagation, Transmission, Router are affecting the Latency.
Packet Loss
When the sender send packet but got no reply we can say it [...]

Ziptie with MySQL or PostgreSQL

Introduction
It is possible to replace derby database, ziptie’s original database, with MySQL or PostgreSQL. For me derby is enough to handle ziptie. Small resource, based on java and sql standard, easy backup (just copy the directory) and of course integrated with ziptie from beginning.But if you already have MySQL or PostgreSQL, it is good idea [...]