From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 4 8:43:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (ekgr-dsl2-92.citlink.net [207.173.226.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8DC37B41A for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 08:43:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bigdaddy (bigdaddy [192.168.1.3]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 22F70EE644; Sat, 4 May 2002 08:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <004701c1f382$63f62ba0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "Tony Saign" , References: <000601c1f324$1ba0cda0$1401a8c0@frankenmobl> Subject: Re: Perl scripts that monitor network connection? Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 08:43:09 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Saign" To: Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:28 PM Subject: Perl scripts that monitor network connection? > Recently (last night) for 3 hours my connection was experiencing some > SERIOUS problems! > (i.e. destination net unreachable, up to 47% packet from my router to > theirs etc.) > > This made me realize I need to monitor this connection VERY closely. > Until the issues are resolved. > > Can anyone recommend any network connection monitoring scripts that > could be scheduled as cron jobs, and possibly emails the results to me? > Or a good open-source package? I've been experimenting with Big Brother. It's free for personal or non-profit use an is nothing more than a collection of perl scripts that produces web pages showing system and connectivity status. Because it's perl, it's highly customizable. You can get it from their website at http://www.bb4.com. HTH, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message