Greetings, On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote: > This line is quite good. What is tcp[13] == 2? Ok, you are checking for > SYN flag. > > But you want to look at outgoing connection requests which netstat > may not help you out with.
I don't have knowledge of network and netstat would not help me that is why I used the first and foremost of the connection establishment packet. Pardon my ignorance. > > So firefox might have a timeout to identify connection outage. sure it has. but how and where do I detect/recognise it from within a script? > > I want to know what you really mean by "tracking unavailability from a > user perspective". > through a script / inotify / auditd > The browser tab itself clearly says that the site is down. What more > do you need? > Indeed, if a human is sitting in front of it. But a human can Lie and in IMHO Audit/SLA hard data is generally relied on which can only be captured, again imho, by script / inotify / auditd or some such mechanism. > In fact there are several tcp* utilities in UNIX for looking at outgoing > TCP connection requests. You can look at them perhaps. > Could you kindly help me with pointers? Thanks for your kind reply Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
