Re: [Dorset] Monitor Pings on WiFi Interface

2021-05-28 Thread Victor Churchill
That's good to hear! best regards, 웃 Victor Churchill, Netley Abbey, Southampton On Fri, 28 May 2021 at 14:51, Terry Coles wrote: > On Friday, 28 May 2021 13:21:47 BST Terry Coles wrote: > > It's lunchtime just now, so I'll try it at WMT later. > > That worked well. The pings showed up

Re: [Dorset] Monitor Pings on WiFi Interface

2021-05-28 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 28 May 2021 13:21:47 BST Terry Coles wrote: > It's lunchtime just now, so I'll try it at WMT later. That worked well. The pings showed up every 15 minutes :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-06-01 20:00 Check to whom you are

Re: [Dorset] Monitor Pings on WiFi Interface

2021-05-28 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 28 May 2021 13:10:08 BST Victor Churchill wrote: > As I recall (it's a while since I used either) wireshark is itself built on > top of a CLI tool tcpdump which I > imagine you should be able to install on a Pi on your network. It has a > raft full

Re: [Dorset] Monitor Pings on WiFi Interface

2021-05-28 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Fri, 28 May 2021 12:17:38 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: > I'm coming to believe that I can only capture packets between two > devices on a network if I am actually running the tool from a > device on that network rather than from a remote device over > VPN. None of the Pis on the WMT network are

Re: [Dorset] Monitor Pings on WiFi Interface

2021-05-28 Thread Victor Churchill
Hi Terry, As I recall (it's a while since I used either) wireshark is itself built on top of a CLI tool tcpdump which I imagine you should be able to install on a Pi on your network. It has a raft full of more options than you ever thought you migh tneed and

Re: [Dorset] Monitor Pings on WiFi Interface

2021-05-28 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 28 May 2021 12:33:53 BST Terry Coles wrote: > On Friday, 28 May 2021 12:25:27 BST Keith Edmunds wrote: > > Smokeping is a daemon, so no X needed. The (optional) display is simply a > > web page, so no X needed. The notifications don't need X. Keith, Maybe I'm missing something, but

Re: [Dorset] Monitor Pings on WiFi Interface

2021-05-28 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 28 May 2021 12:25:27 BST Keith Edmunds wrote: > Smokeping is a daemon, so no X needed. The (optional) display is simply a > web page, so no X needed. The notifications don't need X. Keith, Right. I see that it is available in the Raspberry Pi Repos, so I guess I need to look at the

Re: [Dorset] Monitor Pings on WiFi Interface

2021-05-28 Thread Keith Edmunds
Smokeping is a daemon, so no X needed. The (optional) display is simply a web page, so no X needed. The notifications don't need X. -- Great music, chat and even some wit. Join me every Friday evening at 8pm for Keith's Music Box: https://www.mixcloud.com/live/KeithsMusicBox/ -- Next meeting:

Re: [Dorset] Monitor Pings on WiFi Interface

2021-05-28 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 28 May 2021 11:58:43 BST Keith Edmunds wrote: > Smokeping is your friend: https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ > > Demo: https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=Customers.OP Keith, That looks like its a graphical tool by default, although I see that there is a command line mode.

Re: [Dorset] Monitor Pings on WiFi Interface

2021-05-28 Thread Keith Edmunds
Smokeping is your friend: https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ Demo: https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=Customers.OP -- Great music, chat and even some wit. Join me every Friday evening at 8pm for Keith's Music Box: https://www.mixcloud.com/live/KeithsMusicBox/ -- Next meeting:

[Dorset] Monitor Pings on WiFi Interface

2021-05-28 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, I've been having a problem at Wimborne Model Town with a WiFi connection that appears to go down periodically. One possible solution is that the WiFi Adaptor uses WMM Power. This feature has been known to cause trouble with devices that sit on a network with little or no traffic for many