better ping?

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

"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

mtr (Matt's TraceRoute) does most of what you're after