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Re: Smokeping targets

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marco d'Itri)
Fri Jan 8 11:15:36 2016

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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 17:13:58 +0100
From: Marco d'Itri <md+nanog@Linux.IT>
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On Jan 07, Andrew Dampf <adampf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Something I found that is helpful once you've gathered a list of targets =
is
> the following command for generating config to paste:
>=20
> traceroute -w 3 [IPaddress] | grep -v "*" | grep -v "traceroute" | sed -e
> 's/(//g' -e 's/)//g' | awk '{ gsub(/\./,"_",$2); print "++++ "$2"\nmenu =
=3D
> "$3"\ntitle =3D "$2" - "$3"\nhost =3D "$3"\n"}'
>=20
> That generates a valid output for configs to ping each hop along the way =
to
> your destination, which can be super useful. Not all of them allow ICMP b=
ut
> a decent amount do.
It is also super stupid, because routers reply to ICMP echo requests=20
with a very low priority: this introduces jitter which makes these=20
measurements unreliable.
If you are not monitoring a server then you are wasting your time.

(Also, it would be nice to have the owner permission before deciding to
permanently send a lot of ICMPs to a device.)

--=20
ciao,
Marco

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