Linux-Hams archive - August 1997: Re: More descriptive ping?

Re: More descriptive ping?

Richard Adams (shr@iqi.ru)
Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:05:03 +0000 (GMT)


According to Mike Dent, While burning my cpu.:
>
> Hello, does anybody know of a version of ping which will show a running total
> of pings dropped/percentage etc rather than giving you the stats at the end
> of the ping session?
> Oh yes, I almost forgot, this is for checking out HAM radio packet paths
> with LINUX :-)
> Mike
Dont know of another program but what i find handy is the -p option for
checking to see if folks are receving as they should, espesaly at higher
baudrates. With -p you can transmit high or low tones.

If you want to check out ham-radio paths would not traceroute be a beter
option.?

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