From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 09:29:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478D316A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:29:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from lurch.noc.sgi.net (lurch.noc.sgi.net [208.40.181.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C998743D2D for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:29:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from streiner@stargate.net) Received: (qmail 16999 invoked by uid 100); 30 Mar 2004 17:27:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Mar 2004 17:27:31 -0000 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:27:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Streiner, Justin" X-X-Sender: streiner@lurch To: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <40695B63.4010205@401.cx> Message-ID: References: <40695B63.4010205@401.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: good network troubleshooting tool X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:29:24 -0000 On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > Im looking for suggestions on a good tool to track down packetlosses. > MTR (/usr/ports/net/mtr) is exactly what I want with one exception: > MTR uses ICMP, I would like something TCP based. > I have tried a lot of the utilities in ports but has so far not > found anything that suits my needs. Does anyone have any suggestions > on utilities or pointers where to look? You can try something like lft (layer four traceroute). This may do what you're looking for. http://www.mainnerve.com/lft/ Hope this helps. jms