smokeping is easy and all it does is graph packet loss. i use it. (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/_ plus it's kind of neat looking.
-josh > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Hans Fugal > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 5:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Graphing packet loss > > My dad is having serious come-and-go packet loss issues with > his ISP (a Vernal local wireless setup). I'd like to give him > some leverage with some nice cacti graphs of packet loss, but > I'm having a hard time pinning down precisely what to graph. > > The following is an excerpt of /proc/net/snmp: > > Tcp: RtoAlgorithm RtoMin RtoMax MaxConn ActiveOpens > PassiveOpens AttemptFails EstabResets CurrEstab InSegs > OutSegs RetransSegs InErrs OutRsts > > Would any of those directly measure packet loss? If not, > might some of the stats in /proc/net/tcp (or anywhere else) > have the information (which I could then get into SNMP easy enough). > > It'd be really nice if I could tell on the router what kind > of packet loss is happening, but I'm not sure you can do > that, and since the subnet is a whole two computers that's > not a big issue. > > -- > Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net > > There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit > the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. > -- Johann Sebastian Bach > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
