Have you tried MRTG (Multiple Router Traffic Graph)? Would give you good
statistics too.
RKA
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>Hi,
>
> I'm having a router co-located in a different location. I'm
>supposed to check whether the WAN port of that router is up or not. For
>doing that right now I'm pinging (ping -c 3 myrouter) to that machine
>and verifying (I've written one perl script which pings the link and
>according to the exit status it drops a mail to my account). Some times
>what happens is , ping won't be able to reach the router , even though
>the router is up and returns a fail exit status. B'coz of that I'm
>getting mails which doesn't make any sense as the router is really UP.
>Is there any other method other than ping to check whether the router is
>up or not so that I can use it in my script ? Please help !!!!
>
>regards
>
>arti
>
>
>
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