Re: Measuring PoP to PoP latency--tools to use?

["Brian" <bri () sonicboom org>]

I once worked for a company that wrote a unix script that worked like this.
Basically imagine a quare chart will all the pops listed across the top and
down the left side. Every few minutes, each pop tries a small ping burst to
ping all of the others, and the values are filled into the chart.  Results
are color coded as green, yellow, and red.

    Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Thomas" <sthomas () lart net>
To: "mike harrison" <meuon () highertech net>
Cc: "Grant A. Kirkwood" <grant () virtical net>; "Sean Donelan"
<sean () donelan com>; <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: Measuring PoP to PoP latency--tools to use?


> when someone asked me to do something like this, i waded through caida's
> site and came accross this:
>
> http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/
>
> it's pretty cool stuff. requires *nix box, perl5, and some sort of
> webserver software to produce simple reporting. there's also (optionally)
> utilities that draw some pretty graphs that require gnuplot/ppmtogif.
>
> imho, this is considerably better than logging into your router to do
this.
> routers are much better at forwarding packets than sending/receiving
> them. (except older non-distributed routers, which aren't particularly
> great at either for high traffic volumes) other bonus: no automated
sending
> of passwords from a box that might not get much admin attention.
>
> one could probably modify these tools to use fping, but i just played
> around with them for edutainment purposes. there's no mention of copyright
> that i can find, but one should ask before using for commercial purposes.
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:32:17AM -0400, mike harrison wrote:
> > > It was cheesy, and not particularly scientific, but I've been trying
to
> > > find something like that to implement for the marketing folk. It could
> > > probably be adapted into something more useful to us though. Suffice
it
> > fping, from Stanford originally, now at www.fping.com
> > might be useful, it pings multiple hosts at the same time
> > (fast, efficient) It has easy to parse output and easily gives results
> > like:
> >
> > fping -e <targets
> > www.chatt.net is alive (0.32 ms)
> > www.att.net is alive (27.5 ms)
> > www.uu.net is unreachable
>
> --
> Sam Thomas
> Geek Mercenary