Hi Tuc, Not a perfect solution... you can open multiple xterm and each fire up a mtr to one of the IPs you are interested. mtr has an option (-f? I don't remember exactly) allow you to specify hop n to start your ping.
Min On Dec 18, 2007 11:29 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Phil, > > Thanks. Took a look at that. Its what led me to find fping. Only thing > that makes fping not the final solution is no curses display. > > Thanks, Tuc > > > > > 30 seconds of google searching turned up this: > > http://mteixeira.webset.net/pmping/ > > > > Phil > > > > On Dec 18, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > >> > > >> Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > >> > > >>> Problem we have is a small wireless network is basically flat, not > > >>> networked. There are 10 pieces of equipment between 2 machines. > > >>> However, > > >>> they are both on the same subnet, so it just looks like it only > > >>> needs to > > >>> hop once. Instead, it goes from the router, to a client antenna > > >>> (IP'd), > > >>> to an Access Point (IP'd), to a switch (IP'd), to a backhaul > > >>> (IP'd), to > > >>> another backhaul(IP'd)... You get the jist. I basically want to > > >>> force the > > >>> system to believe my path, not what routed networking tells it. > > >> > > >> traceroute shows a layer 3 path. Your client antenna, access point > > >> etc. are > > >> bridging - a layer 2 activity. > > >> > > >> If you want to 'force' extra hops, you need to have each device > > >> decrement the > > >> TTL of forwarded IP datagrams and correctly send ICMP unreachables. > > >> > > >> There is some Layer 2 traceroute functionality built in to Cisco > > >> kit, useful to > > >> trace paths through a network that may change due to Spanning Tree > > >> - but I have > > >> to ask, what are you trying to achieve here? > > >> > > > Hi, > > > > > > Sorry, I think I'm being seriously misunderstood. > > > > > > Yes, I understand l3/l2. > > > > > > I'm not looking for something that will "autodetect the path" via any > > > sort of methods. I'm basically looking for something I can run on > > > Unix and > > > give me a curses view of IPs I give it to ping at the same time. I > > > was looking > > > on this list only because people here tend to either know or use the > > > "kewl tools". > > > I found something that sort of does what I want, fping, but it > > > doesn't have the > > > display part. Curses MTR bolds the lettering when it has a ping loss > > > which I want > > > to catch my eye. > > > > > > As an FYI, the problem I have is I'm having connection losses > > > between my > > > site and the wireless WISP's gateway. I think the packet is getting > > > to the > > > backhaul link at the site here, but not to the other end of the > > > backhaul here. > > > I want to run a set of pings basically that are : > > > > > > 1 - My router > > > 2 - My antenna > > > 3 - His [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 4 - His [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 5 - His [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 6 - His [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 7 - His [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 8 - His [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 9 - His [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 10- His [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 11- His [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > I want something formalized since sending pings that just show > > > a loss somewhere in the middle don't mean anything. > > > > > > Thanks, Tuc > > > _______________________________________________ > > > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/