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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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opensoruce alternative to VisualRoute

does anybody know a free alternative to http://www.visualware.com/personal/prod … index.html ?

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sarah31

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From: Middle of Canada

Registered: 2002-08-20

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Re: opensoruce alternative to VisualRoute

yeah getting a job you bum it costs nothing to get a job.

(just joking btw)

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lanrat

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From: Poland

Registered: 2003-10-28

Posts: 1,274

Re: opensoruce alternative to VisualRoute

I've been searching for an alternative to this app some time ago. You can check these:
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3august/xt/
http://geotrace.sourceforge.net/

The problem with this kind of tools is that you really need a fresh database of IPs and their geographical location. So even if you find the tool you might have to pay for the database upgrades:
http://www.maxmind.com/
http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/ (this is a free db with monthly upgrades but I haven't checked it myself)
http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/ (ip-to-country handbook http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/node/view/5)

There are also some php/perl apps/modules that can use geo-ip location database and show a nice map etc. For example:
http://www.spamcannibal.org/docs/Geo-IP-PurePerl.html
http://www.xpenguin.com/ip-atlas.php
http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoip/

In Linux I usually just use mtr. Not very visual :-) but it works under console and in gui (gtk1) - no geo information though :-(

MaceM

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From: Austria

Registered: 2003-11-26

Posts: 47

Re: opensoruce alternative to VisualRoute

From "The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.":

VisualRoute. [Prop]
looks kind of free...