[TriLUG] OT: Amiable ping target

Joseph Mack NA3T jmack at wm7d.net
Sun Aug 28 09:13:57 EDT 2005


On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Henning wrote:
>
>> Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
>>> A common problem. Unfortunately the RFCs say that ping is not to be used 
>>> (at least continuously) for connectivity checking.

I see that Donald Becker has a link layer status checker 
mii-diag

http://www.scyld.com/ethercard_diag.html#mii-diag

not quite the same as checking routing though

Joe

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