From: balcer <balcersk@...>
Date: 2005-06-24T16:05:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Dead gateway detection

Guillaume Marcais napisa�(a):
> On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 03:55 +0900, balcersk wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well what I'am trying to do is to write script witch logs all
>>"internet holes" their times etc etc. My ISP has an DSL modem
>>connected to localnetwork (i am on that network too). The second
>>modem is inside ISP building. Ones for 10 minutes, for few seconds I 
>>have no connection to gateway (I have public addres so my gateway is in 
>>ISP bulding). I KNOW this is problem beetwean dsl modems. I'am trying to 
>>prove that thay cheat me a little:). The best way i think is to sumarise
>>frequency and length of non working internet times. That's why this idea 
>>has came, to write simple ruby script. So in this particular case ICMP 
>>ping would be enough but I see no way to call it from Ruby.
>>
> 
> 
> Not that I am trying to steer you away from Ruby, but have you look at
> tools like smokeping by Tobias Oetiker:
> 
> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/
> 
> It should do what you want and in the most pretty way.
> 
> Otherwise, look in RAA for net-ping, icmpmodule or icmpping. I have used
> icmpmodule with quite some success, on both Linux and Windows.
> 
> Hope it helps,
> Guillaume
> 
> 
> 
Many thanks, it just what i need.
Jacek Balcerski