Ping tester

[Peter]

Michael Jezierski - Systec Conveyors wrote:

> what's a good ping tester I can setup on a FC2 box, perferably without 
> any X-windows. Just need to ping a couple sites and if there's a 
> problem email the person responsible for that site.
>

I'm a Linux newbie but if you just need to ping a ip address or url try 
typing something like:

ping -c 5  www.redhat.com

Which will ping redhat's site 5 times. By writing a little script that 
pipes several pings into a log file you can ping a bunch of sites at 
once.  Add your script to cron and your computer will auto check at any 
time frequency you want. Don't know if this is what you meant by ping 
tester.