[PLUG] Network question

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Fri Nov 12 17:56:48 UTC 2004


Also Sprach Sean Whitney <sean at fork.com> on Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:19:39AM PST:
> Also, what's the best way to "ping" or detect latency/packet loss?  Is
> it ping or is there a better tool?  What's the best tool to do this in
> Perl.

From the command line, 'fping' is a good tool for this sort of thing.
I would bet there are wrappers for it in Perl...

Wil
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