LINKS
Core Platforms & Tools
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Wireshark
https://www.wireshark.org/
Description: The official site to download the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. You'll also find extensive documentation, tutorials, and sample capture files. -
RIPE Atlas
https://atlas.ripe.net/
Description: The main portal for the RIPE Atlas global measurement network. Here you can access measurement data, see the status of the network's thousands of probes, and create an account to run your own measurements. -
Measurement Lab (M-Lab)
https://www.measurementlab.net/
Description: The home of the largest open-source platform for measuring Internet performance. Explore their speed test tools (like NDT), access massive public datasets, and learn about their research. -
CAIDA - Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis
https://www.caida.org/data/
Description: A leading Internet measurement research center that publishes many critical Internet measurement resources. This is your gateway to large-scale topology and performance data. -
Shodan
https://www.shodan.io/
Description: A search engine for Internet-connected devices. Shodan continuously scans the Internet and records the services that devices expose, letting you study exposed and vulnerable systems at scale. -
Internet Health Report (IHR)
https://www.ihr.live/
Description: Monitors the health of Internet routing, with public reports for networks, countries and IXPs. It includes AS Hegemony, which measures how much networks depend on other networks to reach the rest of the Internet. -
Internet Yellow Pages (IYP)
https://iyp.iijlab.net/
Description: A knowledge graph from IIJ Research Lab that brings together many public datasets about Internet resources (ASes, IP prefixes, domain names) so you can query them in one place.
Key Organizations & Research Hubs
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RIPE NCC
https://www.ripe.net/
Description: The Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia. This is the organization that develops and maintains RIPE Atlas. Their site has a wealth of information about Internet governance and operations. -
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
https://www.sigcomm.org/events/imc-conference
Description: The premier academic conference where cutting-edge research on Internet measurement is published. The proceedings are an excellent place to go deeper than the labs.
Supplementary Online Tools
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BGPlay
https://stat.ripe.net/bgplay
Description: An excellent tool from RIPE NCC for visualizing BGP routing changes over time. It's incredibly useful for understanding how routing events and anomalies propagate through the Internet. -
Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit
https://bgp.he.net/
Description: A comprehensive toolkit for exploring the global BGP routing tables. You can look up AS information, IP prefixes, and examine routing paths. -
Ping.pe
https://ping.pe/
Description: A simple but powerful online tool that lets you run ping and traceroute to any destination from dozens of locations around the world, providing a quick multi-vantage point perspective.
Python Tutorials
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html (official documentation - tutorial)
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/index.htm
http://www.codecademy.com/glossary/python (short Python glossary)
https://www.codecademy.com/catalog/language/python (Python course)
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python-3 (Python tutorial)
https://www.guru99.com/python-tutorials (list of Python tutorials)
https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers (list of Python tutorials for programmers)
Wireshark Labs
https://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross/wireshark.php (Kurose & Ross Wireshark labs)