On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:18:51AM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > > One of our ISP's seems to be dropping all UDP packets during certain periods > of the day for about 10-15 secs. ... > ICMP does not seem to get dropped, so I can't use that. I need to use UDP, > is this possible ? > My question is, which probe should I use and can I configure the probe to > use a certain UDP port.
How about "traceroute -n -f 255 -m 255 -p PORTNUM hostname" ? That basically turns traceroute into a UDP ping utility. > Also if anyone has any suggestions on how to discover where the UDP packet > loss is occurring along the way, please let me know :) traceroute (without the -f and -m options shown above) might give you some clues if you can run it during the outage. -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
