On 17 Jun 2003 at 22:02, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:27, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > > What I'm looking for is a possibility to see if this router (that > > denies ping- packets) is still available? I have Nagios running and > > normally it monitors hosts via ping. So I need a replacement that > > would tell me if this router on the way to a server is reachable. I > > want to test the whole path to see where an error occured. Well, is > > it possible to "simulate" traceroute-like packets? What would you do > > to achive this? > > Pinging a machine that is beyond the router should be a strong > indication that the router is still functioning. ;)
Well but you don't know if the machine behind is "dead" :-) I need to ping the last router in front of a machine. So incase the machine fails I can see if the backbone-router is still alive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
