i have learnt a little bit of shell scripting but not alot. i want to write a script to diagnose the network using ping and another script to traceroute. how would i do this?
ping hostname
traceroute hostname
...though I suspect you're going to need to give a lot more detail on what you actually want.
u can also use tcpdump and netstat for monitoring
well i just want to write a shell script so that i can check the network using ping and traceroute
Do you just want a combined traceroute/ping command? Or is it supposed to actually do anything with the results?
i want them as 2 different programs and just to give message like network is online else network is offline
Why would you bother running traceroute if you didn't want to see its output? If ping can't get through, neither will traceroute, they're both ICMP...