On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:59:04PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:27:04 +0100, Dietmar Goldbeck wrote: > What is "cricket?" > Similar to mrtg. It is a frontend for rrdtool and can build graphs from measurement. > >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>" > If you want just to know wether ping works at all, the script is overkill. If you want to be informed when packet loss is in excess of 10% you cannot use plain ping anymore. Ciao Dietmar -- Alles Gute / best wishes Dietmar Goldbeck E-Mail: dietmar.goldbeck@acm.org Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization? Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org