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Old 05-02-2012
Shell script to diagnose the network
i have learnt a little bit of shell scripting but not alot. i want to write a script to diagnose the network using ping and another script to traceroute. how would i do this?
# 2  
Old 05-02-2012
Code:
ping hostname
traceroute hostname

...though I suspect you're going to need to give a lot more detail on what you actually want.
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Old 05-02-2012
u can also use tcpdump and netstat for monitoring
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Old 05-02-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Code:
ping hostname
traceroute hostname

...though I suspect you're going to need to give a lot more detail on what you actually want.
well i just want to write a shell script so that i can check the network using ping and traceroute
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Old 05-02-2012
Do you just want a combined traceroute/ping command? Or is it supposed to actually do anything with the results?
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Old 05-02-2012
i want them as 2 different programs and just to give message like network is online else network is offline
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Old 05-02-2012
Smilie Why would you bother running traceroute if you didn't want to see its output? If ping can't get through, neither will traceroute, they're both ICMP...
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