From: Martin Topholm <mph@hoth.dk>
To: Christian Boltz <netdev-vger-kernel.org@cboltz.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: "inverted" ping -a (beep on failure)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:57:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110415215700.GA9300@hoth.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201104152135.33171@tux.boltz.de.vu>
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Christian Boltz wrote:
> I'd like to have the exact opposite of it: beep when pinging fails.
I too have missed this feature (from the BSDs ping). Also I needed
adhoc tracking of multiple hosts. So I experimented with libevent2 and
some code from the BSD ping...
You can see the result here http://hoth.dk/xping/screenshot.jpeg
or http://hoth.dk/xping/xping-20110415.tar.gz .
> I understand that this is slightly difficult because "ping success" is
> easier to detect (incoming package) than "ping failure" (no incoming
> package or firewall reject)
I used the transmit interval for timeout. There's propably a lot of
corner cases I haven't thought about, but it works fairly well.
Regards, Martin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-15 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-15 19:35 Feature request: "inverted" ping -a (beep on failure) Christian Boltz
2011-04-15 19:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-04-15 20:10 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
[not found] ` <20110415124937.6e746646.rdunlap-/UHa2rfvQTnk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-15 20:11 ` Christian Boltz
2011-04-15 20:14 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-04-15 21:57 ` Martin Topholm [this message]
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