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<!-- $Id$ -->
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<P><em>Recent news:</em> a beta version of the future echoping is <A
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HREF="ftp://ftp.internatif.org/pub/unix/echoping/">available</A>. This
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version, 6.0, will be the first with plugins, so you can extend
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echoping with any protocol you like and/or use.
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<P>"echoping" is a small program to test (approximatively) performances of a
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remote host by sending it TCP "echo" (or other protocol) packets.
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remote host by sending it TCP "echo" (or other protocol, such as HTTP) packets.
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<P>To install it, see the INSTALL file. Or type "<code>./configure && make
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&& sudo make install</code>" if you're in a
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<P>The exit status is set if there is any problem, so you can use
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echoping to test repeatedly a Web server, to be sure it runs fine (<A
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HREF="http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/">SmokePing</A>
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does it). Or you can display statistics like <A
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HREF="https://monitor.netaktiv.com/MRTG/web.html">at Netaktiv</A> (see
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the <A HREF="echoping-web.sh">shell script</A> which runs echoping).
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does it). Or you can display statistics with <A
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HREF="http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/">MRTG</A>. (see
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an example of a <A HREF="echoping-web.sh">shell script</A> which runs echoping
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from MRTG).
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<P>To do for a future version: see the TODO file.
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