Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
A common problem. Unfortunately the RFCs say that ping is not to be used
(at least continuously) for connectivity checking.
Which RFC says that? I'm not contradicting you; I just want to read it
and learn more. (-: So far, I've only found some generic stuff that
doesn't specifically mention when (and when not) to use ICMP ECHO:
RFC 792 - ICMP
RFC 2151 - A Primer on Internet and TCP/IP Tools and Utilities
Kevin Otte wrote:
sntop (http://sntop.sf.net/): Set up a config file (3 lines per host: short
name, ip/hostname, description) and it continually gives host status in
'top' style. Can even produce HTML output.
Both are available as Debian packages (and thus likely Ubuntu as well).
Ooo, looks interesting. Although I was sort of looking forward to
flexing my C++ skills a bit (just for the heck of it, instead of using
something like Perl...no interpreter, [hopefully] smaller process
footprint). :-) Nothing like a sideline programming project to make a
dull job a little more bearable.
Cheers and thanks,
~Brian
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