conncheck, Network Connectivity Checker

Stanislav Shalunov

The program conncheck is used for basic connectivity testing.

To use this program:

  1. Edit conncheck.pl to set the target and the location of the ping executable on your system.
  2. Edit your Cron table (typically, ``crontab -e'') and include a line such as the following: 
    * * * * *	/FULL/PATH/TO/conncheck.pl >> /FULL/PATH/TO/conncheck.out
  3. Wait some time to collect the data; the program will be run by Cron once a minute.
  4. Use connprocess.pl to convert the results into a human-readable form: connprocess.pl conncheck.out

This program comes with no warranty.

Mnemonic: CONNectivity CHECKer.

Sample results: Speakeasy DSL connection status (commiserate: I wrote the tool to debug this connection).

Download: conncheck-0.1.tar.gz

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