possible to keep track of isp uptime?

[Fiveohhh]

I'm curious if its possible to have my smoothwall box ping a public site once every 30 seconds or so. and keep a log of if it got a response or times out. my isp seems to be very flakey lately and I'm curious how often it is actually down. I'm guessing I could do some sort of cron thing, but was hoping there was maybe a linux prgram written that would do this easily.
Thanks

 

[n0cmonkey]

Probably, check freshmeat.

I'd just do something like:

#!/bin/sh


ping -c 1 -i 30 ip address > ~/ping_test 2>&1

And then use something like gd to create a graph out of it. Might be kind of rude though 😛

EDIT: I just wanted to warn you that I can't test that or anything here, so double check the command. 😉

 

[cmetz]

Google for icpld

 

[Fiveohhh]

Thanks guys I'll look into both of em.

 

[Slowlearner]

I suggest Karen Kenworthy's Net Monitor at www.karenware.com.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Slowlearner
I suggest Karen Kenworthy's Net Monitor at www.karenware.com.

Those are.... Windows programs. 😛

 

[Fiveohhh]

got icpld installed and working thanks for the suggestion. works great😀

 

[mgpaulus]

I use mrtg in combination with mtr. Mtr handles the ICMP stuff, and mrtg creates/manages a nice graphic. You can see the results of my network status Here