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Old 12-30-2003
Richard Boekamp
 
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Default Re: better ping?


"Vaclav Dvorak" <dvorakv@idas.cz> schreef in bericht
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> Hi,
>
> is there a better ping? I was thinking of a utility that could:
> 1) send out several ping packets with different sizes for comparison
> 2) ping several different hosts
> 3) both of the above
> - in parallel, and then make a nice graph of the results. Output on the
> console and/or into a bitmap is desirable. Also, in combination with
> traceroute (but preferably without really invoking traceroute
> separately), it would be nice to ping all the routers in a path at the
> same time, and then by comparing the results, show the packet loss and
> average latency for each of the hops.
>
> Another nice feature would be an interactive display with real-time
> showing of changes (averaged over a given number of recent samples).
>
> Does anything like that exist? Thanks!
>
> Vaclav Dvorak
>


try traceroute
and there are several utlities to be found on the net using a combination of
the available linux commands...

Richard


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