Comments on: Audible Ping http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/08/12/audible-ping What happens at LShift Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:46:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: mehdi http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/08/12/audible-ping#comment-15293 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:03:46 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/08/12/audible-ping#comment-15293 <p>salut</p> salut

]]> by: Ian Morrison http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/08/12/audible-ping#comment-12 Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:11:31 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/08/12/audible-ping#comment-12 <p>Under FreeBSD very similar functionality is built into the standard ping program. From the ping(8) manpage:</p> <pre><code> -A Audible. Output a bell (ASCII 0x07) character when no packet is received before the next packet is transmitted. To cater for round-trip times that are longer than the interval between transmissions, further missing packets cause a bell only if the maximum number of unreceived packets has increased. -a Audible. Include a bell (ASCII 0x07) character in the output when any packet is received. This option is ignored if other format options are present. </code></pre> <p>so if you ran ping -A 123.123.123.123, your jukebox would start beeping as soon as the dsl connection went down.</p> <h2>ian</h2> <p>http://darq.com/#/</p> Under FreeBSD very similar functionality is built into the standard ping program. From the ping(8) manpage:

 -A      Audible.  Output a bell (ASCII 0x07) character when no packet is received before the next packet is transmitted.  To cater for round-trip times that are longer than the interval between transmissions, further missing packets cause a bell only if the maximum number of unreceived packets has increased.

-a      Audible.  Include a bell (ASCII 0x07) character in the output when any packet is received.  This option is ignored if other format options are present.

so if you ran ping -A 123.123.123.123, your jukebox would start beeping as soon as the dsl connection went down.

ian

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