Re: [Astlinux-users] Busybox Ping

[Michael K. <mic...@ip...>]

Ah thanks Lonnie. I love mtr. Perfect! So glad I asked.

Regards
Michael Knill

-----Original Message-----
From: Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...>
Reply-To: AstLinux List <ast...@li...>
Date: Friday, 10 November 2017 at 7:55 am
To: AstLinux List <ast...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Busybox Ping

Hi Michael,

I usually prefer to use "fping" (or "fping6") which is has a lot of features.

Even on the Busybox ping you can set the count option -c2 for two tries.

Also try "mtr host"

$ mtr 8.8.8.8

or for a -w or --report-wide

$ mtr -w 8.8.8.8

Give "mtr" a try.

Lonnie


On Nov 9, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Michael Knill <mic...@ip...> wrote:

> Hi Group
>  
> Im having what I believe are some upstream network issues with one of my providers and I really need to do some testing.
> Unfortunately the Busybox Ping is a bit limited in what it can do. Its also annoying that it does not show timeouts until you stop it, unlike most other Ping implementations (am I missing something here?).
>  
> Are there any other tools in Astlinux that can help with this?
>  
> Regards
> Michael Knill
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