Re: Monitoring a network interface

[Pavel Urban]

You can use script like this one and do timestamp check.

address@hidden root]# cat x
#!/bin/bash
COUNT=3
HOST="192.168.3.2"
LIMIT=80
RESULT=`ping -c $COUNT -q $HOST | perl -ne '/\ (\d+)\%\ packet\ loss/ && 
print $1'`
if [ $RESULT -lt $LIMIT ] ; then
  touch /var/flag.ping
fi


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