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NETI@Home to Examine Net's Strengths

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the optimize-this dept.

UnresolvedExternal writes "Wired is reporting about Georgia Tech researchers who want thousands of computer users to install their program to help them monitor traffic patterns on the Internet. They plan to use the data to strengthen the Net and unblock bottlenecks."

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  1. NEWSFLASH! by hyperstation · · Score: 3, Informative

    if you're that concerned about spyware, READ THE *SOURCE* and see what it does!

    it's not like you're being asked to install a random binary and run it 24/7....

  2. Re:Mac OS X Support by Nasarius · · Score: 3, Informative

    How exactly is this a troll? Maroons. Theoretically, it should compile as long as you have libpcap and Ethereal installed.

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  3. Re:and the resources by espo812 · · Score: 3, Informative
    According to the article:
    The data collected by NETI, sans anything that might personally identify volunteers, will also be made available to other network researchers and the general public on the NETI website. As the project picks up speed -- currently there are only a few dozen volunteers -- they expect to make the data available in real time.
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    espo
  4. Re:NETI@Home results by Sepper · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those who wanted to know what the 'Other' might be

    IEEE 1164 std_logic
    'U' Uninitialized
    'X' Unknown
    '0' Logic 0 (driven)
    '1' Logic 1 (driven)
    'Z' High impedance
    'W' Weak 1
    'L' Logic 0 (read)
    'H' Logic 1 (read)
    '-' Don't-care


    I Have an exam involving this stuff (VHDL) Tomorrow... so I thought some of you might want to know... (But i'm sure most of you just '-' )

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  5. Re:But I'm Cynical... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just from the story summary, this sounds like a distributed attack.

    Which is exactly why the phrase RTFA was created.

    This project monitors your network performance, not constantly connecting to a single server. This raises privacy issues, but they're gladly doing something about that. There are options as to what you let it send, and the files it sends are stored locally so you can view them.

  6. I see a problem with this.... by mu_wtfo · · Score: 3, Informative
    NETI@home apparently uses CAIDA's "NetGeo" database to map network addresses to geographic locations. However, the NetGeo home page proclaims (in big red type):
    NOTE: NetGeo has not been actively maintained for several years, and this will probably not change in the foreseeable future. As a result, there are several known major issues affecting accuracy and service availability. Please be warned that NetGeo may give wildly incorrect results, especially for recently allocated or re-assigned IP addresses.


    That might make it just a bit useless, no?

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