Step back a few years … I've often thought when I'm under a desk somewhere jiggling wires, is that some kind of audio feedback on ping would be useful: your server isn't responding, but when you re-seat the ethernet connector it comes back online; you have a messy, unlabeled switch to work through, so you unplug wires until the audio feedback stops, and you've located your machine. That kind of thing.<\/p>\n
I've occasionally looked around the internet for such a tool and uncovered a couple of scripts and tools which don't quite work. I've even thought of writing my own script, but never quite got around to it.<\/p>\n
But now the search is over. As part of\u00a0 Ubuntu\/Gnome Desktop there is a hidden feature. You might have come across it before and missed it. A casual glance in System > Admin > Network Tools and you'll find all your favourite network diagnostic tools. Ping, netstat, nslookup, dig, finger, whois, etc. Well nearly all of them: it doesn't have the excellent mtr, but that's another story. So … as someone who's normally got a command prompt open somewhere, and who's used to the command line, I took an initial look at Network Tools, filed it as \"Potentially useful\", and went back to my old command line ways.<\/p>\n
But look a little closer:flip to the Ping tab, and under Tools, there is an option to \"Beep on Ping\". Simple but Glorious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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