[mrtg] PING code

[awatthey at mmm.com]

Hi,

History
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I use MRTG to graph interface statistics.
I have recently added a call to an external perl script which does a few PINGs
and returns the results.

Issue
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Because PING is not a good measure of latency in a network (routes differently
and gets thrown away regularly) I wish to use a PERL script to start a session
with a particular port number and graph the results.

Does anyone know of such a program?   Whether it is in PERL or C is immaterial.

All I need it to do it to try and do the connect to an IP address and port
number passed as a parameter.  To time out after 15 seconds and to return me the
time it took (in milliseconds preferably) to establish the connection.

Regards,
Alan.



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