From 1f2b14e0b4439f010a18d785fc7d454b4f7344c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephane Bortzmeyer Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:44:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * Ad for the beta version 6 * Link to Netaktiv no longer works --- Web/index.wml | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Web/index.wml b/Web/index.wml index f6cd491..d3e6b7d 100644 --- a/Web/index.wml +++ b/Web/index.wml @@ -2,8 +2,13 @@ +

Recent news: a beta version of the future echoping is available. This +version, 6.0, will be the first with plugins, so you can extend +echoping with any protocol you like and/or use. +

"echoping" is a small program to test (approximatively) performances of a -remote host by sending it TCP "echo" (or other protocol) packets. +remote host by sending it TCP "echo" (or other protocol, such as HTTP) packets.

To install it, see the INSTALL file. Or type "./configure && make && sudo make install" if you're in a @@ -86,9 +91,10 @@ Elapsed time: 0.686792 seconds

The exit status is set if there is any problem, so you can use echoping to test repeatedly a Web server, to be sure it runs fine (SmokePing -does it). Or you can display statistics like at Netaktiv (see -the shell script which runs echoping). +does it). Or you can display statistics with MRTG. (see +an example of a shell script which runs echoping +from MRTG).

To do for a future version: see the TODO file.