http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-...ose-tools.html
The following program, mtr, seems very appropriate:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/findin...unix-oses.html
Also note the following from the man page for tcpdump:
-tt Print an unformatted timestamp on each dump line.
-ttt Print a delta (in micro-seconds) between current and previous
line on each dump line.
From
http://node1.yo-linux.com/cgi-bin/ma...ommand=tcpdump
It seems to me that you could easily write a script to make use of this.
Hope this helps get you started.