[Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

Has anyone written a Linux program that plots ping times in real time?
I.e. that gives the same information as running ping in an extra window
(with no -c argument), but graphically?

It would be helpful when manually tweaking an AQM.

--jch

Re: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Richard Mortimer]

On 18/10/2011 14:13, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> Has anyone written a Linux program that plots ping times in real time?
> I.e. that gives the same information as running ping in an extra window
> (with no -c argument), but graphically?
>
> It would be helpful when manually tweaking an AQM.

MTR might be what you are looking for.

http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/

Regards

Richard

Re: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> MTR might be what you are looking for.

I'm familiar with mtr, and it's not what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for something that will generate a plot of RTT against
time over the last two minutes or so.

I currently run ping (without a -c argument) in a maximised window, but
a graphic version would use less screen real estate.

-- Juliusz

Re: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Simon Leinen]

Juliusz Chroboczek writes:
>> MTR might be what you are looking for.
> I'm familiar with mtr, and it's not what I'm looking for.

> I'm looking for something that will generate a plot of RTT against
> time over the last two minutes or so.

You really mean "last" or "next"?

> I currently run ping (without a -c argument) in a maximised window, but
> a graphic version would use less screen real estate.

"skping" was a very nice real-time RTT grapher.

http://www.caida.org/tools/measurement/skitter/skping/

Unfortunately it seems to have died.  I still have a Solaris binary
lying around, and although it's an ancient 32-bit one, it still works on
my (also ancient, but running relatively recent 64-bit Solaris)
Sun^H^H^HOracle SunBlade 2500 workstation.

If someone could reimplement this as open source, I'd buy them a beer.

(Tobi, can we have a real-time version of Smokeping please? :-)
-- 
Simon.

Re: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Kim Hawtin]

On 02/11/11 03:32, Simon Leinen wrote:
> Juliusz Chroboczek writes:
>> I currently run ping (without a -c argument) in a maximised window, but
>> a graphic version would use less screen real estate.
>
> "skping" was a very nice real-time RTT grapher.

have a look at 'mtr'. it does real time traceroute, but has useful stats 
and a few different modes to visualise the RTT.

cheers,

kim

Re: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 15:13, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> Has anyone written a Linux program that plots ping times in real time?
> I.e. that gives the same information as running ping in an extra window
> (with no -c argument), but graphically?

My guess would be gnuplot, use "-" as a file to read from stdin. But I
don't know if it will actually do it real-time.

http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/gnuplotStreaming.html

is a way it seems. Basically, go UNIX on it and feed the output of a
ping-tool as the input of something which can real-time plot data as
they arrive.


-- 
J.

Re: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Petri Rosenström]

Hi,

gnome-nettool probably goes in the same pool as mtr, but I suggest it any way.

http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-network//screenshots.shtml

Best regards
Petri Rosenström



On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Jesper Louis Andersen
<jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 15:13, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>> Has anyone written a Linux program that plots ping times in real time?
>> I.e. that gives the same information as running ping in an extra window
>> (with no -c argument), but graphically?
>
> My guess would be gnuplot, use "-" as a file to read from stdin. But I
> don't know if it will actually do it real-time.
>
> http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/gnuplotStreaming.html
>
> is a way it seems. Basically, go UNIX on it and feed the output of a
> ping-tool as the input of something which can real-time plot data as
> they arrive.
>
>
> --
> J.
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Re: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Harry Bock]

I know of no Linux program that does this, but if you're willing to
bite the bullet and run wine, you can use MultiPing by Nessoft[1].  It
works quite well under wine, but requires superuser permissions to
create a raw socket, so YMMV.  You could probably set the wine
executable to have CAP_NET_RAW so you don't have to run it as root.

[1] http://www.nessoft.com/multiping/download.html

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Petri Rosenström
<petri.rosenstrom@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> gnome-nettool probably goes in the same pool as mtr, but I suggest it any way.
>
> http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-network//screenshots.shtml
>
> Best regards
> Petri Rosenström
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Jesper Louis Andersen
> <jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 15:13, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> >> Has anyone written a Linux program that plots ping times in real time?
> >> I.e. that gives the same information as running ping in an extra window
> >> (with no -c argument), but graphically?
> >
> > My guess would be gnuplot, use "-" as a file to read from stdin. But I
> > don't know if it will actually do it real-time.
> >
> > http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/gnuplotStreaming.html
> >
> > is a way it seems. Basically, go UNIX on it and feed the output of a
> > ping-tool as the input of something which can real-time plot data as
> > they arrive.
> >
> >
> > --
> > J.
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Re: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Alex Burr]

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Sounds like smokeping:
http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/


Alex




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>From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>
>To: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
>Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:13 PM
>Subject: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?
>
>Has anyone written a Linux program that plots ping times in real time?
>I.e. that gives the same information as running ping in an extra window
>(with no -c argument), but graphically?
>
>It would be helpful when manually tweaking an AQM.
>
>--jch
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Re: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Eric Dumazet]

Le mardi 18 octobre 2011 à 11:34 -0700, Alex Burr a écrit :
> Sounds like smokeping:
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
> 
> 
> 
Exactly, and available as a package on Ubuntu :)

A piece of cake...

Re: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Bruce Atherton]

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Agreed, SmokePing is exactly what you want. You will have to change the 
step and pings settings to allow collecting data at the resolution you 
want, but otherwise it gives you what you need by wrapping RRDTool with 
ping data collection (as well as a number of other probes) and a 
visualization tool for graphing.

Note that you could accomplish something similar on your own (see 
http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/2007/03/21/round-trip-and-packet-loss-stats-with-rrdtool/) 
but with SmokePing already available you might as well use that.

On 18/10/2011 11:34 AM, Alex Burr wrote:
> Sounds like smokeping:
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
>
> Alex
>
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>
>     *To:* bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:13 PM
>     *Subject:* [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?
>
>     Has anyone written a Linux program that plots ping times in real time?
>     I.e. that gives the same information as running ping in an extra
>     window
>     (with no -c argument), but graphically?
>
>     It would be helpful when manually tweaking an AQM.
>
>     --jch
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Re: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Peter Newman]

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Yes I've used smokeping in the past for testing my tc configs, with the
ping frequency turned right up, pinging the other side of my modem.

It's not exactly real time refresh (being a web interface and all) but
it may be close enough.

Peter N

On 19/10/2011 5:34 AM, Alex Burr wrote:
> Sounds like smokeping:
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
>
> Alex
>
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>
>     *To:* bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:13 PM
>     *Subject:* [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?
>
>     Has anyone written a Linux program that plots ping times in real time?
>     I.e. that gives the same information as running ping in an extra
>     window
>     (with no -c argument), but graphically?
>
>     It would be helpful when manually tweaking an AQM.
>
>     --jch
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Re: [Bloat] Plotting ping times in real time?

[Jonathan Morton]

On 18 Oct, 2011, at 4:13 pm, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> Has anyone written a Linux program that plots ping times in real time?
> I.e. that gives the same information as running ping in an extra window
> (with no -c argument), but graphically?
> 
> It would be helpful when manually tweaking an AQM.

If no existing solution is suitable, it should be easy enough to cobble something together which parses a pipe from 'ping' and does stuff with Cairo.

 - Jonathan