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hipercontracer 2.1.12-1

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DescriptionHigh-Performance Connectivity Tracer (HiPerConTracer)

High-Performance Connectivity Tracer (HiPerConTracer) is a Ping/Traceroute measurement framework. HiPerConTracer denotes the actual measurement tool. It performs regular Ping and Traceroute runs among sites, featuring: multi-transport-protocol support (ICMP, UDP); multi-homing and parallelism support; handling of load balancing in the network; multi-platform support (currently Linux and FreeBSD); high-precision (nanoseconds) timing support (Linux timestamping, both software and hardware); a library (shared/static) to integrate measurement functionality into other software (libhipercontracer); open source and written in a performance- and portability-focused programming language (C++) with only limited dependencies.

Furthermore, the HiPerConTracer Framework furthermore provides additional tools for helping to obtain, process, collect, store, and retrieve measurement data: HiPerConTracer Viewer Tool for displaying the contents of results files; Results Tool for merging and converting results files, e.g. to create a Comma-Separated Value (CSV) file; Sync Tool for copying data from a measurement node (vantage point) to a remote HiPerConTracer Collector server (via RSync/SSH); Reverse Tunnel Tool for maintaining a reverse SSH tunnel from a remote measurement node to a HiPerConTracer Collector server; Collector/Node Tools for simplifying the setup of HiPerConTracer Nodes and a HiPerConTracer Collector server; Trigger Tool for triggering HiPerConTracer measurements in the reverse direction; Importer Tool for storing measurement data from results files into SQL or NoSQL databases. Currently, database backends for MariaDB/MySQL PostgreSQL, MongoDB) are provided; Query Tool for querying data from a database and storing it into a results file; Database Shell as simple command-line front-end for the underlying database backends; Database Tools with some helper scripts to e.g. to join HiPerConTracer database configurations into an existing DBeaver (a popular SQL database GUI application) configuration; UDP Echo Server as UDP Echo (RFC 862) protocol endpoint; Wireshark dissector for HiPerConTracer packets.

This package contains the actual HiPerConTracer program.

MaintainerThomas Dreibholz <dreibh@simula.no>
Changed ByThomas Dreibholz <dreibh@simula.no>
Sponsorlocutusofborg@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureany all
Closes#1127210
Popcon Installs31
Binary NEWYes (binary-only upload)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hipercontracer
Uploaded5 hours ago

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.changes
Version2.1.12-1
Changed-ByThomas Dreibholz
Architecturesource all amd64
Distributionunstable
DateSat, 14 Mar 2026 15:26:48 +0100
Sourcehipercontracer
Changelog
hipercontracer (2.1.12-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release.
   * debian/control: Removed obsolete libboost-system-dev dependency
     (Closes: #1127210).
   * debian/control: Updated Debian standards version.
   * debian/*: Adapted the packaging, according to the tools description
     in https://github.com/dreibh/hipercontracer/blob/master/README.md .
     The split into sub-packages allows one to install a subset of the
     HiPerConTracer tools, with their dependencies, without installing
     the whole framework and all of its dependencies.
   * debian/control: Removed Vcs-* fields.
   * debian/*.install: usr/lib/*/ -> usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/.
.dsc
Sectionnet
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listhipercontracer deb net optional arch=any
hipercontracer-all deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-collector deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-common deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-dbeaver-tools deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-dbshell deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-examples deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-importer deb net optional arch=any
hipercontracer-node deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-query deb net optional arch=any
hipercontracer-results deb net optional arch=any
hipercontracer-rtunnel deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-sync deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-trigger deb net optional arch=any
hipercontracer-udp-echo-server deb net optional arch=any
hipercontracer-viewer deb net optional arch=all
libhipercontracer-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libhipercontracer2 deb libs optional arch=any
libhpctio-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libhpctio2 deb libs optional arch=any
libuniversalimporter-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libuniversalimporter2 deb libs optional arch=any
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: HiPerConTracer
Upstream-Contact: Thomas Dreibholz <dreibh@simula.no>
Source: https://www.nntb.no/~dreibh/hipercontracer

Files: *
Copyright: 2015-2026 Thomas Dreibholz
License: GPL-3+

License: GPL-3+
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public
 License version 3 can be found in the file
 `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.

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