From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 25 15:50:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD0715892 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 15:50:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=mistress) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11V0fT-000LXY-00; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:51:47 +0000 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:47:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders To: Allen Cleveland Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing ping output In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990925184302.008076f0@mindsieve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Allen Cleveland wrote: > > I'd like to ping an ip address, but only see output when the address > *doesn't* return a reply, and I'd also like to have the times a reply > *isn't* returned timestamped. > > I just read ping(8) and I don't see a way to turn off the output of replies > and only see packets that didn't get a reply, nor do I see a way to > timestamp any of the output. I want to use this to tell me when my > connection fails, even if I'm not sitting at the computer. > > If there is a better way, using another command, or anyone has any ideas in > general, I'd very much appreciate your input. > > > -- > Allen Cleveland allenc@mindsieve.com > There is no try. Do, or do not do, but no try. -Yoda > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > mtr? It is in the ports in directory net. mtr is a combination of ping and traceroute and shows you the amount and % of dropped packets and the time the packets take to get from hop to hop. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message