Yes, or I could use any number of other tools on *nix, too, including hping, etc, but curiosity is nagging me.
Kurt On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:21 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > if you want timestamps easy, youse fping.exe. I use it all the time when I > need to log pings versus time date for WAN issues. Works really well. > JR > > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Kurt Buff [email protected] > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:17:07 -0800 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Ignorant ping question > > > All, > > From a Win7 box, ping -s 4 -t host > > Just out of curiosity, what are the timestamps returned by the '-s 4' > parameter? Are they anything like the timestamps returned by the BSD > flavor of "ping -M"? I've googled a fair bit and just come up with > scripts using ping and echo, etc., to write timestamps to a file, > which isn't what I'm after. > > I ask, because I'm pinging a machine across an IPSec tunnel that > collapses and recovers occasionally, and am trying to figure out why - > I though this might be useful. > > However, the timestamps are a bit confusing. See the example return below: > > I ping from a machine on the 192.1068.1.0/24 subnet, the DG is 192.168.10.1. > > The target is 192.168.61.38, and the host at 203.143.xx.yy is the > firewall in our AU office (I also don't know how it extracts the > external IP address of the firewall from a ping crossing the tunnel). > > Reply from 192.168.61.38: bytes=32 time=200ms TTL=127 > Timestamp: 192.168.10.1 : 71831314 -> > 192.168.8.13 : 71821027 -> > 203.143.xx.yy : 35646863 -> > 192.168.61.38 : 71797297 > > Note that the time stamp from the host at 203.143.xx.yy is > significantly different from the other timestamps. > > Kurt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
