On Jan 07, Andrew Dampf <[email protected]> wrote: > Something I found that is helpful once you've gathered a list of targets is > the following command for generating config to paste: > > traceroute -w 3 [IPaddress] | grep -v "*" | grep -v "traceroute" | sed -e > 's/(//g' -e 's/)//g' | awk '{ gsub(/\./,"_",$2); print "++++ "$2"\nmenu = > "$3"\ntitle = "$2" - "$3"\nhost = "$3"\n"}' > > That generates a valid output for configs to ping each hop along the way to > your destination, which can be super useful. Not all of them allow ICMP but > a decent amount do. It is also super stupid, because routers reply to ICMP echo requests with a very low priority: this introduces jitter which makes these measurements unreliable. If you are not monitoring a server then you are wasting your time.
(Also, it would be nice to have the owner permission before deciding to permanently send a lot of ICMPs to a device.) -- ciao, Marco
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