On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:27:04 +0100, Dietmar Goldbeck wrote: >> is there a program/package to monitor the "line quality" (read "availability" >> with respect to packet roundtrip times to a Point-to-Point peer or some other >> topologically short-ranged host)? > >You can use fping for that. 2 perl scripts for testing are >included in mon >http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/html/ Thanks for this URL. I will have a look at it to see whether it's of use for me. >I have a script, for use with cricket that measures What is "cricket?" >min, max, avg round trip time and packet loss. I append it here. >Should be easy to add some alarm when some parameter is out of an >acceptable range. Thanks, I will also have a look at that script, since at first glance I don't see the advantage over a simple "ping -c 10 <host>" Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
