Announcing a prettier noping
I have implemented really pretty histograms in the venerable ping software, something I never thought could be improved, until I discovered prettyping.sh, something that was just begging for improvements.
Which are now done.
But first some history...
First, in 1983 (!), there was ping) and network operators rejoiced, as they could see if a host was down or not, and have all sorts of geeky statistics:
PING koumbit.net (209.44.112.66): 48 data bytes
56 bytes from 209.44.112.66: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=25.076 ms
56 bytes from 209.44.112.66: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=24.006 ms
56 bytes from 209.44.112.66: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=24.106 ms
^C--- koumbit.net ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 24.006/24.396/25.076/0.483 ms
Then, in 2006, there was noping, and things were, well, not much better, but we had colors and could ping multiple hosts at once, and there was some rejoicing.
Then, in october 2013, there was prettyping.sh(announcement), and things got really flashy and "oh wow, you can do that?" There was much rejoicing.
Then, tonight, I learned ncurses and there was much headaches.
But then, I reimplemented prettyping in noping, and I am so happy that I wrote this blog post:
Unless you haven't figured out how cool this is, let me break it down for you:
- it supports IPv4 and IPv6
- it allows you to track multiple hosts at the same time, and compare them
- this allows you to easily track down failure points in a network, something for which you usually need smokeping (needs a webserver) or mtr (doesn't have colors)
- it allows you to track a lot (the last minute at least) of history by default
- it is visually easy to track, even from a distance
You may know of that hack that can make "ping" ring a bell when it receives a packet? This is better: you can see the packets latency (or when they are just dropped!) from a distance, using an intuitive color code.
Thanks to the well architectured noping, the patches were not that complicated to implemented.
The code was submitted as a pull request upstream and merged in the 1.7.0 release. This is also part of your favorite Debian distribution (Debian Jessie).
Rejoice!
Well, those borders were there before I started working on noping, so I suggest you take that upstream.
Also, I find it ironic that, in the article you posted, one of the formulas is shown in a graphic with two useless borders, violating the rules it is trying to describe.
Upstream is quite interested in the patch, and there's now a pull request, which details current challenges:
https://github.com/octo/liboping/pull/3
Hi,
I saw your post and thought I'd give it a go, however when I try and compile I get an error:
Making all in bindings make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jason/source/liboping/bindings' if test ! -d perl; then \ for file in perl/Changes perl/MANIFEST perl/META.yml perl/Makefile.PL perl/Oping.xs perl/README perl/lib/Net/Oping.pm perl/t/Oping.t perl/typemap; do \ mkdir -p `dirname $file`; \ cp ./$file `dirname $file`; \ done \ fi cd perl && perl Makefile.PL PREFIX="/opt/oping" TOP_BUILDDIR=".." TARGET_LIBDIR="/opt/oping/lib" Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Only one of PREFIX or INSTALL_BASE can be given. Not both. make[1]: *** [perl/Makefile] Error 255 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jason/source/liboping/bindings' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1Steps to reproduce:
this is on debian 7.1 with perl installed via perlbrew. perl-5.16.3
I fetched version 58fd85d1d65fc770fa6895d21ffb2973cb8e10fc
I can't reproduce this here:
anarcat@marcos:~$ cd /tmp anarcat@marcos:tmp$ git clone -b prettyping git://src.anarc.at/liboping Clonage dans 'liboping' remote: Counting objects: 1282, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (402/402), done. remote: Total 1282 (delta 863), reused 1229 (delta 830) Receiving objects: 100% (1282/1282), 184.38 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (863/863), done. Checking connectivity... done anarcat@marcos:tmp$ cd liboping/ anarcat@marcos:liboping$ ./autogen.sh libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'. libtoolize: linking file `./ltmain.sh' libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'. libtoolize: linking file `m4/libtool.m4' libtoolize: linking file `m4/ltoptions.m4' libtoolize: linking file `m4/ltsugar.m4' libtoolize: linking file `m4/ltversion.m4' libtoolize: linking file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4' configure.ac:46: installing `./config.guess' configure.ac:46: installing `./config.sub' configure.ac:8: installing `./install-sh' configure.ac:8: installing `./missing' Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL' autoconfiguration done, to build: ./configure ; make anarcat@marcos:liboping$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... none checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking whether ln -s works... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking how to print strings... printf checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for dlltool... no checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n checking for ar... ar checking for archiver @FILE support... @ checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for sysroot... no checking for mt... mt checking if mt is a manifest tool... no checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking for shl_load... no checking for shl_load in -ldld... no checking for dlopen... no checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... no checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking math.h usability... yes checking math.h presence... yes checking for math.h... yes checking signal.h usability... yes checking signal.h presence... yes checking for signal.h... yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes checking netdb.h usability... yes checking netdb.h presence... yes checking for netdb.h... yes checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking sys/socket.h usability... yes checking sys/socket.h presence... yes checking for sys/socket.h... yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for netinet/in_systm.h... yes checking for netinet/in.h... yes checking for netinet/ip.h... yes checking for netinet/ip_icmp.h... yes checking for netinet/ip_var.h... no checking for netinet/ip6.h... yes checking for netinet/icmp6.h... yes checking for size_t... yes checking for ssize_t... yes checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes checking for uint16_t... yes checking for uint32_t... yes checking for uint8_t... yes checking for socket... yes checking for __xnet_recvmsg in -lxnet... no checking for nanosleep... yes checking ncursesw/ncurses.h usability... yes checking ncursesw/ncurses.h presence... yes checking for ncursesw/ncurses.h... yes checking for mvwprintw in -lncursesw... yes checking whether strerror_r is declared... yes checking for strerror_r... yes checking whether strerror_r returns char *... no checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes checking whether strerror_r is declared... (cached) yes checking for strerror_r... (cached) yes checking whether strerror_r returns char *... (cached) no checking for gettimeofday... yes checking for memset... yes checking for modf... yes checking for select... yes checking for socket... (cached) yes checking for sqrt... no checking for strcasecmp... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for strerror... yes checking for strncasecmp... yes checking for strtoul... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/mans/Makefile config.status: creating bindings/Makefile config.status: creating src/config.h config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing libtool commands anarcat@marcos:liboping$ make Making all in src make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/src » make all-recursive make[2]: entrant dans le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/src » Making all in mans make[3]: entrant dans le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/src/mans » pod2man --section=3 --release=1.6.2 --center=liboping liboping.pod >liboping.3 pod2man --section=3 --release=1.6.2 --center=liboping ping_construct.pod >ping_construct.3 pod2man --section=3 --release=1.6.2 --center=liboping ping_setopt.pod >ping_setopt.3 pod2man --section=3 --release=1.6.2 --center=liboping ping_host_add.pod >ping_host_add.3 pod2man --section=3 --release=1.6.2 --center=liboping ping_send.pod >ping_send.3 pod2man --section=3 --release=1.6.2 --center=liboping ping_get_error.pod >ping_get_error.3 pod2man --section=3 --release=1.6.2 --center=liboping ping_iterator_get.pod >ping_iterator_get.3 pod2man --section=3 --release=1.6.2 --center=liboping ping_iterator_get_info.pod >ping_iterator_get_info.3 pod2man --section=3 --release=1.6.2 --center=liboping ping_iterator_get_context.pod >ping_iterator_get_context.3 pod2man --section=8 --release=1.6.2 --center=liboping oping.pod >oping.8 make[3]: quittant le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/src/mans » make[3]: entrant dans le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/src » /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Wall -Werror -g -O2 -c -o liboping_la-liboping.lo `test -f 'liboping.c' || echo './'`liboping.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Wall -Werror -g -O2 -c liboping.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/liboping_la-liboping.o libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Wall -Werror -g -O2 -c liboping.c -o liboping_la-liboping.o >/dev/null 2>&1 /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -Werror -g -O2 -version-info 2:9:2 -o liboping.la -rpath /opt/oping/lib liboping_la-liboping.lo libtool: link: gcc -shared -fPIC -DPIC .libs/liboping_la-liboping.o -O2 -Wl,-soname -Wl,liboping.so.0 -o .libs/liboping.so.0.2.9 libtool: link: (cd ".libs" && rm -f "liboping.so.0" && ln -s "liboping.so.0.2.9" "liboping.so.0") libtool: link: (cd ".libs" && rm -f "liboping.so" && ln -s "liboping.so.0.2.9" "liboping.so") libtool: link: ar cru .libs/liboping.a liboping_la-liboping.o libtool: link: ranlib .libs/liboping.a libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "liboping.la" && ln -s "../liboping.la" "liboping.la" ) gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Wall -Werror -g -O2 -c oping.c /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -Werror -g -O2 -o oping oping.o liboping.la -lm libtool: link: gcc -Wall -Werror -g -O2 -o .libs/oping oping.o ./.libs/liboping.so -lm -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/opt/oping/lib gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DUSE_NCURSES=1 -Wall -Werror -g -O2 -c -o noping-oping.o `test -f 'oping.c' || echo './'`oping.c /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -Werror -g -O2 -o noping noping-oping.o liboping.la -lm -lncursesw libtool: link: gcc -Wall -Werror -g -O2 -o .libs/noping noping-oping.o ./.libs/liboping.so -lm -lncursesw -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/opt/oping/lib make[3]: quittant le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/src » make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/src » make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/src » Making all in bindings make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/bindings » if test ! -d perl; then \ for file in perl/Changes perl/MANIFEST perl/META.yml perl/Makefile.PL perl/Oping.xs perl/README perl/lib/Net/Oping.pm perl/t/Oping.t perl/typemap; do \ mkdir -p `dirname $file`; \ cp ./$file `dirname $file`; \ done \ fi cd perl && perl Makefile.PL PREFIX="/opt/oping" TOP_BUILDDIR=".." TARGET_LIBDIR="/opt/oping/lib" Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Warning: -L../../src/.libs changed to -L/tmp/liboping/bindings/perl/../../src/.libs Writing Makefile for Net::Oping Writing MYMETA.yml cd perl && make make[2]: entrant dans le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/bindings/perl » cp lib/Net/Oping.pm blib/lib/Net/Oping.pm /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl/5.14/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /usr/share/perl/5.14/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap Oping.xs > Oping.xsc && mv Oping.xsc Oping.c cc -c -I../../src -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g -DVERSION="1.21" -DXS_VERSION="1.21" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl/5.14/CORE" Oping.c Running Mkbootstrap for Net::Oping () chmod 644 Oping.bs rm -f blib/arch/auto/Net/Oping/Oping.so LD_RUN_PATH="/tmp/liboping/bindings/perl/../../src/.libs" cc -L../../src/.libs -shared -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector -Wl,-rpath -Wl,"/opt/oping/lib" Oping.o -o blib/arch/auto/Net/Oping/Oping.so \ -L/tmp/liboping/bindings/perl/../../src/.libs -loping \ chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/Net/Oping/Oping.so cp Oping.bs blib/arch/auto/Net/Oping/Oping.bs chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/Net/Oping/Oping.bs Manifying blib/man3/Net::Oping.3pm make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/bindings/perl » [ ! -f perl/Makefile ] || ( cd perl && make all ) make[2]: entrant dans le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/bindings/perl » make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/bindings/perl » make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /tmp/liboping/bindings » make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /tmp/liboping » make[1]: Rien à faire pour « all-am ». make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /tmp/liboping »... works fine here, also Debian 7.1:
I have oping 1.6.1 installed and tried running it with two hosts but there are no colors being shown. What is the issue?
oping 10.254.0.2 10.254.241.193
Do I need some additional parameters? Is your patch implemented in oping 1.6.1 or some later version?