Based on io.js and Electron.
IXnode is open source software used to execute network traces used to determine the physical location of packets going to different sites. It can be installed and executed from a built release on the IXmaps web site or by downloading and setting up the development version. Either way, we welcome your comments and participation.
If you're reading this document from within a downloaded IXnode distribution, you can run the software from here.
IXnode uses raw sockets so requires your system's administrator (root) access.
After downloading the built package, extract it. Go to your system's command line / terminal (in many graphical environments, press Control-Alt-t), and change to the extracted directory. Run this command:
$ sudo ./ixnode
You'll be prompted for your administrator password, then the IXnode interface will appear.
After downloading the built package, extract it. In the Finder, navigate to /Applications/Utilities and double click on terminal. You'll be on the command line. In it, type these commands:
$ cd <directory you extracted IXnode to>
$ sudo Contents/MacOS/Electron
You'll be prompted for your administrator password, then the IXnode interface will appear.
After downloading the built package, extract it. Go to the extracted directory, right-click on ixnode.exe and choose "Run as Administrator."
Since IXnode is an open source project, anyone can download its sources, inspect them, and make pull requests which can be integrated into the main project for fixes and improvements.
You will need the iojs version of node. iojs is currently version 2.0.1. For installation, https://github.com/creationix/nvm seems to work well. Once installed, use nvm install iojs
You will also need appropriate build tools for your OS installed (eg build-essentials, or on Mac OS, the basic XCode).
Then:
$ npm install -g gulp && npm install && gulp build
Before executing the Electron app, you will need to build the modules for Electron's version of the Javascript engine.
$ npm run-script build-electron
Note this means you will need to re-install the modules for your node version if using command line execution (see below).
More information: https://github.com/atom/electron/blob/master/docs/tutorial/using-native-node-modules.md
Since you're accessing raw sockets, you must run as root (eg sudo). Make sure your root user has node available.
# npm start
Run $ npm run-script package-[linux|darwin|win32] as required.
The generated Electron package will be under dist and should be run as root.
# node trace-raw
use -h for help.
Note you should not run npm run-script build-electron before using the command line version (the compiled raw-socket2 is for a different version). If required, remove node_modules and re-run npm install before using run-trace.