[smokeping-users] Measure latency to TCP ports

[tbh]

On 12/13/07, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:59:37AM -0600,
> tbh <tbh1000 at gmail.com> wrote
> a message of 67 lines which said:
>
> > it appeared to me the EchoPing primarily is used to measure HTTP
> > requests. It does have options for SSL and SMTP,
>
> or echo, discard or chargen :-)

True...true...:-)

>
> > but I'm looking to measure latency to other ports as well (ie., FTP,
> > Telnet, SSH, etc).
>
> Not done yet, although the new plugin architecture should make it easy
> (I'm not sure I will include telnet support, is there any reason to
> still use telnet today???)
>

Not really, I just threw it in as an example.

> But, if you are interested only in TCP latency, any port will work,
> no? I do not think there exists an OS which replies to connection on
> port 80 faster or slower than on other ports.
>

My issue is that not all the hosts I'm measuring to are running a web server.

Thanks for the responses!