[TriLUG] icmp as non-root

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Michael Hrivnak wrote:

>I'm trying to run pingplotter in wine under Mandrake 10, but I get this error:
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Both Tanner and Jon addressed this point sufficiently, I'll leave it at 
that.

>Also, if you can suggest a linux alternative to pingplotter, that would be 
>cool too!
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You should have a look at smokeping (from the author of mrtg and 
rrdtool, Tobias Oetiker).  It is like pingplotter taken to an enterprise 
level.  :)  It's a perl back end, that runs on a server (which could of 
course mean: your desktop w/ apache and perl), and generates graphs that 
provide a very detailed look into how latency changes over time, between 
the server and a host you're monitoring.  The homepage for smokeping is 
located here:
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/

While you're at it, you might wish to check out MRTG for checking the 
bandwidth utilization of various network interfaces, as well as a 
virtually any other statistic you might like to track (i.e. temperature, 
humidity, cpu or disk utilization, illumination, etc).

Aaron S. Joyner