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Gping – ping, but with a graph
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Re: Gping – ping, but with a graph
#22I 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…
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Re: Gping – ping, but with a graph
#23Really 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).
You can also pass commands instead of hosts (for example running “curl google.com”).
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#24Related and very important https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/network-layer/what-is-mt...
Make sure you understand what MTR actually shows and why.
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#25Brilliant, I'm often on shitty WiFi and have a terminal opening pinging somewhere. This is what I have been locking for to troubleshoot.
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#26I love gping, but wish there was more of an in-depth info/manpage. The one it ships with doesn't explain much (What's t/o, for example? How are things calculated?), and the github page doesn't help much either.
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#27Really 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).
mtr (Matt's traceroute) is another great utility for this.
It doesn't graph output, but does show connectivity , latency, packet loss, and variance on a set of hosts between your IP and the destination.
https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/>
(Previously noted in this thread by westurner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36549005>)
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#28Smokeping does this, but with webui, if it is still around that is.
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#29Feature request: sound.
On the rare occasion I need feedback while messing around with cabling. I did write an improvised tool for the purpose, but it's kind of crappy in that it's just around ping.
Behold the power of 'pingu': https://pastebin.com/qTfdZ7C8
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#30Off topic, but it seems that we’ve really stagnated, on the terminal front, especially considering how many clients have full GPU acceleration these days.
How has there not been some basic image/data steaming built in, after all of these decades? Why am I writing scripts that parse human text output?