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" <sthomas@lart.net> To: "mike harrison" <meuon@highertech.net> Cc: "Grant A. Kirkwood" <grant@virtical.net>; "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>; <nanog@merit.edu> 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
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