Re: [hobbit] traceroute

[Roberto Tagliaferri <r.tagliaferri (at) tosnet.it>]

Henrik Stoerner ha scritto:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:31:36AM +0100, Peter wrote:
>   
> > I see in the man pages that it is possible to do a 
> > traceroute if the conn test fails. Is it also possible 
> > to always do a traceroute? And maybe even get yellow if 
> > it exeeds a certain number of hops?
> >     
>
> No.
>
> Running traceroute is rather ressource-heavy, and I would
> strongly advise against doing that on all hosts - if you have
> more than a handful of systems you test, it can easily cause
> your network tests to take longer than 5 minutes to complete,
> and you won't be able to have your status updated as often as
> one would like.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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I'm using mtr instead traceroute:
TRACEROUTE=" mtr --report --report-cycle=1"
And work fine...

System unreachable for 3427 poll periods (1033598 seconds)

red 84.253.135.66 is unreachable
Traceroute results:
HOST: robyt                       Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
 1. router                        0.0%     1    1.2   1.2   1.2   1.2   0.0
 2. 151.5.149.137                 0.0%     1    4.0   4.0   4.0   4.0   0.0
 3. FICI-B01-Ge2-0.70.wind.it     0.0%     1    5.0   5.0   5.0   5.0   0.0
 4. RMID-T02-FICI-B01-po01.wind.  0.0%     1   12.5  12.5  12.5  12.5   0.0
 5. RMCA-E02-fe01.wind.it         0.0%     1   12.5  12.5  12.5  12.5   0.0
 6. ???                          100.0     1    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0


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