[44463] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for a ping plotting tool for *nix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Tue Nov 27 22:10:30 2001
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 03:07:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: dani-post@roisman.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:52:36 -0800
> From: dani-post@roisman.com
> I'm searching for a tool that will continuously (once per
> second or .5 second) ping every hop on a specified path (or
> ping a list of hosts) and somehow plot/graph/track packet loss
> and latency/jitter.
Without 1) starting a flame war or 2) insinuating that you would
engage in bad behavior, all hops are within your network, right?
Consistent pinging across others' networks is generally frowned
upon. (And, no, I can't recall the RFC off the top of my head,
nor whether it said "MUST NOT" or "SHOULD NOT" -- I believe the
former.)
Eddy
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