On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:00 PM, gdonts wrote:
i've had similar with WAN connections where I can't install software
at either endpoint, only on my end, so was looking for a way to
troubleshoot/analyse the connection.
what you suggest in B) is done by a handy windows app
...unless you're not running Windows (whether natively or in a virtual
machine) and don't have WINE, in which case it's obviously not done
with a Windows app. :-)
A quick google for
pingplotter linux
(using "linux" as a proxy for "UN*X") found
http://sourceforge.net/projects/m-ping
and
http://cacti.net/
(although not directly); others may exist.
I haven't used any of them, or Pingplotter, so I can't say how well
they work relative to Pingplotter, or offer advice on the use of
Pingplotter; I can just offer an alternative for those who aren't
running Windows.
i'd imagine in theory wireshark could do some/all of it for you,
Some, not all - Wireshark doesn't ping (and isn't intended to ping),
and...
but i'm not sure it'd be easy to get the data out.
...and that's the other thing - Wireshark currently doesn't match up
ICMP Echo requests and responses (unless somebody added it while I
wasn't watching), so it wouldn't be easy to get ping times out of it.