[40819] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Measuring PoP to PoP latency--tools to use?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike harrison)
Thu Aug 23 08:32:49 2001
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:32:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
To: "Grant A. Kirkwood" <grant@virtical.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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> 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
