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I once worked for a company that wrote a unix script that worked like this. Basically imagine a quare chart will all the pops listed across the top and down the left side. Every few minutes, each pop tries a small ping burst to ping all of the others, and the values are filled into the chart. Results are color coded as green, yellow, and red. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Thomas" <[email protected]> To: "mike harrison" <[email protected]> Cc: "Grant A. Kirkwood" <[email protected]>; "Sean Donelan" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 7:27 AM Subject: Re: Measuring PoP to PoP latency--tools to use? > > 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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