On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 around 11:43:07 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:27:36 +0100, Serge Maandag wrote: > > >You could use mrtg (http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/). > >Somewhere under the user pages there is a 'plugin' to monitor pingtimes, > >line uptime, etc. > > > >I've used it and it works well. > > Well, I'm already using it since more than a year, but it's not exactly what > I want. With MRTG I don't see if the line drops out for just a few minutes > or so. Even if it drops out for a longer period it's sometimes hard to > recognize. > > What I want is "something" that clearly indicates "line disrupted," that > optionally notifies me immediately when this occurs, that also notifies me > if excessive ping times occur, etc. If it is a router, you can always use the syslog of the machine you sent its syslog information to, to detect these drops. Maybe even use syslog to pipe that information to an sms_client? Met vriendelijke groet, Pauline Middelink -- PGP Key fingerprint = DE 6B D0 D9 19 AD A7 A0 58 A3 06 9D B6 34 39 E2 For more details look at my website http://www.polyware.nl/~middelink - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
