Script to ping, traceroute a destination and record the time

2009-10-29 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, I am trying to troubleshoot a problem that is totally random and the one idea that would help me is to have a bash script that will ping a few destinations every minute, then do a traceroute to these destinations, record the time and all that output in a file. then the whole process would

Re: Script to ping, traceroute a destination and record the time

2009-10-29 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Thu, 29.10.2009 at 16:26:49 +0200, Kasper Adel karim.a...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to troubleshoot a problem that is totally random and the one idea that would help me is to have a bash script that will ping a few destinations every minute, then do a traceroute to these

Re: Script to ping, traceroute a destination and record the time

2009-10-29 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 04:26:49PM +0200, Kasper Adel wrote: Hi, I am trying to troubleshoot a problem that is totally random and the one idea that would help me is to have a bash script that will ping a few destinations every minute, then do a traceroute to these destinations, record the

Re: Script to ping, traceroute a destination and record the time

2009-10-29 Thread John Jackson
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 04:26:49PM +0200, Kasper Adel wrote: Hi, I am trying to troubleshoot a problem that is totally random and the one idea that would help me is to have a bash script that will ping a few destinations every minute, then do a traceroute to these destinations, record the

Re: Script to ping, traceroute a destination and record the time

2009-10-29 Thread David Walker
If you can't whip this up yourself in a matter of 2 minutes they have the wrong person debugging it. +1 If you can't already write this don't panic - it is possibly the best opportunity you may have to get your feet wet. Motivation - fix that problem. Interesting - who doesn't like learning?

Re: Script to ping, traceroute a destination and record the time

2009-10-29 Thread Kasper Adel
thanks all for answering. Traceroute will allow me to find out if during the short period of application disconnect is whether its an app problem or the network topology changes and where (which router) the packets couldnt get across. Cheers, Kim On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Toni Mueller

Re: Script to ping, traceroute a destination and record the time

2009-10-29 Thread Frans Haarman
2009/10/29 Kasper Adel karim.a...@gmail.com thanks all for answering. Traceroute will allow me to find out if during the short period of application disconnect is whether its an app problem or the network topology changes and where (which router) the packets couldnt get across. Cheers,