Re: [SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-18 Thread DaZZa
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Terry Collins wrote: Curiosity question. everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity. what do people do when they need to test a service? telnet IP PORT? Thinking of cheops functionality. jffnms - http://www.jffnms.org Easier to configure than

[SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread Terry Collins
Curiosity question. everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity. what do people do when they need to test a service? telnet IP PORT? Thinking of cheops functionality. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor

Re: [SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread Anth
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Terry Collins wrote: Curiosity question. everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity. what do people do when they need to test a service? telnet IP PORT? nagios. http://www.nagios.org cheers, Anth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 22:05, Terry Collins wrote: Curiosity question. everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity. what do people do when they need to test a service? ping and traceroute only work when commercial setups allow them to work. These are not reliable.

Re: [SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:05:59PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Curiosity question. everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity. what do people do when they need to test a service? telnet IP PORT? I use netcat for random little bits and pieces. - Matt signature.asc

Re: [SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins wrote: Curiosity question. everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity. what do people do when they need to test a service? telnet IP PORT? or netcat, or if you're monitoring hosts and services regularly, nagios. -- [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread Peter Hardy
On 08/17/04 22:43, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins wrote: Curiosity question. everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity. what do people do when they need to test a service? telnet IP PORT? or netcat, or if you're monitoring hosts and

RE: [SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread Visser, Martin
To: Slug List Subject: [SLUG] Network Testing Curiosity question. everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity. what do people do when they need to test a service? telnet IP PORT? Thinking of cheops functionality. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc

RE: [SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread David
] On Behalf Of Terry Collins Sent: Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:06 PM To: Slug List Subject: [SLUG] Network Testing Curiosity question. everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity. what do people do when they need to test a service? telnet IP PORT? Thinking

Re: [SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread Dave Kempe
David wrote: Result: Averaging one failure/hour.. sometimes several consecutively. Question: Is it reasonable to expect ping -c 1 to be a true indication of the network status? I understand that ping waits one second before giving an error. That sounds like a network problem to me. The normal ping

Re: [SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread James Gray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:27 am, Dave Kempe wrote: David wrote: Result: Averaging one failure/hour.. sometimes several consecutively. **SNIP** I have seen the same result on request DSL. The customer didn't seem to mind so I didn't pursue it.

RE: [SLUG] Network Testing

2004-08-17 Thread Visser, Martin
Phone: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com -Original Message- From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:10 AM To: Visser, Martin Cc: Slug List Subject: RE: [SLUG] Network Testing