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by wolrah 495 days ago
Neat, reminds me a lot of noping which is a long-time favorite of mine (and its non-graphical counterpart oping): https://noping.cc/

One thing I've always wanted in a ping tool but never found is something that can log anomalous results, so for example one could leave it running in a screen/tmux session and come back a day or two later to not just see that there had been some instances of high latency or packet loss but also see when it happened and for now long per burst.

With all the existing tools I'm aware of I can come back to a long-running ping after a day or two and see that there were 170 pings that got lost but have no idea if that was individual intermittent drops or one continuous event like a cable modem rebooting in the middle of the night.

A couple of times I've attempted to do it myself but the nature of ICMP means it ends up requiring lower level programming than I'm comfortable with.