Ok, I have a question.

My internet provider sucks....
And now I want to monitor my connection in some way, so that I can see if it "died" - disconnected and when that happened.

What app should I use for this job ?
Etheral ?

Thanks

Hi,

I've recently been having no end of similar problems with my connection. I set up my hobbit server to ping my ISP's DNS servers so I could see if the connection was up or down.

Etheral isn't meant for this kind of task, it's more for network traffic sniffing.

Cheers,

Steve

Thanks, I'll look into that.

If you're simply wanting a routine ping, there are loads of dockapps and plugins for things like gKrellM that will ping various servers and address at whatever interval you specify and flash a red or green light on your screen. for example. I have gKrellM doing this so it flashes in the corner of my desktop. Or are you also looking at logging capabilities so it records the timestamp from when the connection went down?

all is Ok,
but if you want to check your ISP connection up time and want to make record for the same, then you can use MRTG for this, to do this you need one of these below mention access.

1. Ping access to you ISP's any server or Router ethernet port.
2. OR you have to know any http site name hosted within your ISP servers.
3. SNMP access and snmp community name and server or routers IP.(on which snmp enable)

try to make MRTG graph for ping statics. (if dont knowi this then plzz download Windows base MRTG Bundle 2.0 for this, it have ping graph script)

same grph can be createable for http port and snmp enable ethernet interface . by this you can able to have your link exact statics + its history
If these line are usefull then plzz just inform.

Rizwan.