Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26904588
Gping – ping, but with a graph
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Re: Gping – ping, but with a graph
#12Going makes me think of Google, graping would have been a fun name.
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#13Awesome! Thanks for building this and sharing. I did something similar https://github.com/jflittner/ping_visualizer not too long ago, but yours looks way better!
Re: Gping – ping, but with a graph
#14I like the graph and being able to use multiple hosts. I could see some benefit to creating bash functions that use gping + cmd + curl since HTTPS will be reachable in more places than ICMP which is often blocked at the last few hops past a datacenter firewall and ICMP numbers can be misleading since most operating systems rate limit it and most routers deprioritize it based on backplane CPU load which has no bearing on the ability to forward packets.
I noticed that if I used "-4" with a host that has both ipv4 and ipv6 addresses it still pings the ipv6 address despite displaying the ipv4 address. Do others here experience that? I'm on version 1.8.0.
Re: Gping – ping, but with a graph
#15Really nice that it allows you to pass a list of hosts at the same time, and it will plot them in the same graph: For instance, `gping mydomain.com google.com` is really nice for a quick sanity check (is it my Wifi or my hosting provider).
Its a "super-power" (as the page says)
Re: Gping – ping, but with a graph
#16Going makes me think of Google, graping would have been a fun name.
If you squint hard enough “graping” also looks like it’s a google thing. But hey - Google does not own the letter G ;)
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#17Re: Gping – ping, but with a graph
#18mtr does traceroute, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_(software) : > The tool is often used for network troubleshooting. By showing a list of routers traversed, and the average round-trip time as well as packet loss to each router, it allows users to identify links between two given routers responsible for certain fractions of the overall latency or packet loss through the network.[4] This can help identify net…
My mind is blown by those 3D graphs. I almost want to make them dynamically drawn in a futuristic style and use that as screensaver...
Like a WebGL VPN company logo screensaver composed of all those routes we shouldn't trust?
graph-drawing gh topic lists a number of JS libraries: https://github.com/topics/graph-drawing
Is there a good way to make a JS screensaver that doesn't leak memory yet? Maybe WebGL could get that done
Re: Gping – ping, but with a graph
#19mtr does traceroute, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_(software) : > The tool is often used for network troubleshooting. By showing a list of routers traversed, and the average round-trip time as well as packet loss to each router, it allows users to identify links between two given routers responsible for certain fractions of the overall latency or packet loss through the network.[4] This can help identify net…
Yah, MTR could do it 30 years ago so not sure whats being added here. Need to play with that 3D export thanks for sharing!
Re: Gping – ping, but with a graph
#20Really cool! I love the terminal based graphics