[TriLUG] icmp as non-root

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Tue Sep 28 09:27:00 EDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 09:19, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:

> >Also, if you can suggest a linux alternative to pingplotter, that would be 
> >cool too!
> >
> >  
> >
> 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

What a sweet application for a VoIP provider!  I've got to check that
application out!

Jon




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