I want to run some checks on my ADSL connection to see what sort of level (if any) of packet loss I am getting.
In particular I want to run some checks in the small hours of the morning because I'm getting some rsync errors which might be due to packet loss.
What tools are available for checking packet loss? Is there anything better than 'ping' and/or what is a civilised repeat rate to use with ping to avoid it being seen as a DoS attack?
The system I'm rsync'ing with does respond to 'ping' so that's a start.
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:23:57AM -0500, chrisisbd@leary.csoft.net wrote:
I want to run some checks on my ADSL connection to see what sort of level (if any) of packet loss I am getting.
In particular I want to run some checks in the small hours of the morning because I'm getting some rsync errors which might be due to packet loss.
What tools are available for checking packet loss? Is there anything better than 'ping' and/or what is a civilised repeat rate to use with ping to avoid it being seen as a DoS attack?
You could leave mtr running - I'd suggest getting mtr-tiny and seeing if that gives you the sort of info that you're after.
Thanks,
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 02:26:40PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:23:57AM -0500, chrisisbd@leary.csoft.net wrote:
I want to run some checks on my ADSL connection to see what sort of level (if any) of packet loss I am getting.
In particular I want to run some checks in the small hours of the morning because I'm getting some rsync errors which might be due to packet loss.
What tools are available for checking packet loss? Is there anything better than 'ping' and/or what is a civilised repeat rate to use with ping to avoid it being seen as a DoS attack?
You could leave mtr running - I'd suggest getting mtr-tiny and seeing if that gives you the sort of info that you're after.
That looks like what I need, thanks!
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