On 17/03/14 13:47, scott wrote:
>> Try 'ping -i 60 www.google.com >> pingfile.txt'
> 
> In the end I set up a small script to output the date/time and then the
> result of 5 pings, this then gets run every minute by cron. I then wrote
> a small C# program on my windows box to grab the log from the pi and
> process it into CSV format for general graphing and analysis in Excel.
> It's only a few regex's but my Linux knowledge is limited so would have
> spent hours trying to do it on the pi. Also my BT modem handily has a
> USB socket on the back which I can power the pi from, so it's all pretty
> neat.
> 

That's one way of doing it. ;-)

> As you can imagine though there were no errors at all since Friday
> evening when I got it running. 1 ping was not received out of about 15k
> sent, and the response times were all pretty normal. BT did indeed phone
> back when they promised (I even got a text to remind me) but of course
> their comment was that the line is stable. I did persuade them to carry
> on their "test" for another 5 days, I hope it breaks during this time.
> 

I'm amazed you managed to persuade them to carry on testing for another
5 days. I'm not sure whether to hope it does break or whether to hope
that an intermittent fault has fixed itself.

John
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