thanks all for answering. Traceroute will allow me to find out if during the short period of application disconnect is whether its an app problem or the network topology changes and where (which router) the packets couldnt get across.
Cheers, Kim On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Toni Mueller <openbsd-m...@oeko.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 29.10.2009 at 16:26:49 +0200, Kasper Adel <karim.a...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I am trying to troubleshoot a problem that is totally random and the one > > idea that would help me is to have a bash script that will ping a few > > destinations every minute, then do a traceroute to these destinations, > > record the time and all that output in a file. then the whole process > would > > repeat minute. > > I don't know what exactly you are going to do with the traceroute, > which is both hard to implement, given your timing requirements, and > tedious to evaluate, but if you could be content with pings and packet > loss, I can recommend using Smokeping with aggressive settings, and/or > some other things to trigger a traceroute in case of a problem. > > > Kind regards, > --Toni++
