oops got posted to sthitaprjna's box...sorry ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:04:40 +0530 (IST) From: sreangsu acharyya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sthitaprajna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: mtu selection script If any body cares to run it on a ppp session. host= mtu=300 while [ $mtu -le 1500 ] do num=`ping -s $mtu -c 15 $host|grep round|cut -f 4 -d " "|cut -f 2 -d "/"` mtu=`expr $mtu + 50` tput=`echo "scale=3;$num/$mtu" | bc` echo " $mtu $tput">output.txt done the parsing of pings output is very kludgy. Awk or perl would have been better i guess. But i am sadly ignorant on those fields -- sreangsu ---------------------------------------------- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
