Re: TPing as an alternative to FPing ?

2002-10-18 Thread Jon Meek
Another alternative is up_rtt.monitor. It uses UDP echo, but fails over to TCP echo if none of the UDP packets are returned. Logging this information can tell you a lot about the health of a circuit over time. Some early examples are shown in: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceeding

Re: TPing as an alternative to FPing ?

2002-10-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:05:26PM +0200, Baco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 132 lines which said: > When we are monitoring a leased line and the traffic is running very high the router >or the modem > drop the ICMP requests so the leased line apears to be down but it is still running

TPing as an alternative to FPing ?

2002-10-18 Thread Baco
Hi, When we are monitoring a leased line and the traffic is running very high the router or the modem drop the ICMP requests so the leased line apears to be down but it is still running. One solution is maybe to use TCP Ping as an alternative to ICMP echo. So I did my own patch to tranform fpin