Graphing packet loss

[Josh Coates]

smokeping is easy and all it does is graph packet loss.  i use it. 
(http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/_
plus it's kind of neat looking.

-josh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Hans Fugal
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 5:11 PM
> To: plug at plug.org
> Subject: Graphing packet loss
> 
> My dad is having serious come-and-go packet loss issues with 
> his ISP (a Vernal local wireless setup). I'd like to give him 
> some leverage with some nice cacti graphs of packet loss, but 
> I'm having a hard time pinning down precisely what to graph.
> 
> The following is an excerpt of /proc/net/snmp:
> 
> Tcp: RtoAlgorithm RtoMin RtoMax MaxConn ActiveOpens 
> PassiveOpens AttemptFails EstabResets CurrEstab InSegs 
> OutSegs RetransSegs InErrs OutRsts
> 
> Would any of those directly measure packet loss? If not, 
> might some of the stats in /proc/net/tcp (or anywhere else) 
> have the information (which I could then get into SNMP easy enough).
> 
> It'd be really nice if I could tell on the router what kind 
> of packet loss is happening, but I'm not sure you can do 
> that, and since the subnet is a whole two computers that's 
> not a big issue.
> 
> --
> Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net
>  
> There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit 
> the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
>     -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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