Ping

johnsont · 09-09-2003, 07:45 AM

I would like to be able to log the round trip times to a file when pinging. Additionally, I would like to be able to modify the frequency of the pinging. Is there a way to do this? If not, then where can I find some compilable source for the ping program, so that I can modify it. I am running a recent version of Red Hat Linux.
Thanks,
Todd

Bebo · 09-09-2003, 08:04 AM

Well, "man ping" would do some good for you

It seems "ping -i <time interval in seconds>" sets the ping time interval... Then, to log the ping output to a file, just redirect it; "ping > outputfile". Or was this too obvious? Sorry if I misunderstood

david_ross · 09-09-2003, 01:09 PM

If you want to add the date you could use:

Code:

while [ 1 ];do date +"%x %X - `ping -c1 127.0.0.1|grep rtt`" >> ping.log;sleep 60;done

The example above waits for 60 seconds between pings.

The "ping.log" file would have entries like:
09/09/03 18:33:31 - rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.070/0.070/0.070/0.000 ms