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when someone asked me to do something like this, i waded through caida's site and came accross this: http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/ it's pretty cool stuff. requires *nix box, perl5, and some sort of webserver software to produce simple reporting. there's also (optionally) utilities that draw some pretty graphs that require gnuplot/ppmtogif. imho, this is considerably better than logging into your router to do this. routers are much better at forwarding packets than sending/receiving them. (except older non-distributed routers, which aren't particularly great at either for high traffic volumes) other bonus: no automated sending of passwords from a box that might not get much admin attention. one could probably modify these tools to use fping, but i just played around with them for edutainment purposes. there's no mention of copyright that i can find, but one should ask before using for commercial purposes. On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:32:17AM -0400, mike harrison wrote: > > > It was cheesy, and not particularly scientific, but I've been trying to > > find something like that to implement for the marketing folk. It could > > probably be adapted into something more useful to us though. Suffice it > > fping, from Stanford originally, now at www.fping.com > might be useful, it pings multiple hosts at the same time > (fast, efficient) It has easy to parse output and easily gives results > like: > > fping -e <targets > www.chatt.net is alive (0.32 ms) > www.att.net is alive (27.5 ms) > www.uu.net is unreachable -- Sam Thomas Geek Mercenary
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