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Internet => General Internet => Topic started by: Weaver on February 06, 2019, 09:20:54 PM

Title: Ping testing
Post by: Weaver on February 06, 2019, 09:20:54 PM

I am wondering about the possibility of a hosted service or some software that will repeatedly ping an IP address and configureably report n successive non-responses as an alert. Alert by email. (AA do an alert by Twitter [but most of the time it doesn’t seem to work for me at the moment] which is really nice, and by SMS)

I know that Firebrick makes a box that can do this, and Thinkbroadband uses it iirc.

But I’m wondering if I could get some of my own IPs monitored with this kind of technology.

If I could find some software that does this then I could run it on my hosted (external) Raspberry Pi. Would need to speak IPv6 in that case tho. Writing my own thing would be a pain at the moment.

Or else a hosted system, a server that does this.

I have seen lots of things on the web about software for this, got rather lost.

Title: Re: Ping testing
Post by: boost on February 06, 2019, 09:53:55 PM

Smokeping plus some donkeying around might do it?

Title: Re: Ping testing
Post by: jelv on February 06, 2019, 10:00:38 PM

Doesn't the thinkbroadband BQM (https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality) do monitoring along the lines you want? I have both IPv4 and IPv6 monitors running - see https://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,21177.msg367191.html#msg367191

Scrub that.

Have a look at https://f8lure.mouselike.org - it can send you an email when a link goes down.

Title: Re: Ping testing
Post by: Weaver on February 07, 2019, 02:17:31 AM

@jelv - what a superb find. Thank you very much indeed ;D