package/mtr/ipkg/mtr.control

   1 Package: mtr
   2 Priority: optional
   3 Section: net
   4 Maintainer: OpenWrt Developers Team <openwrt-devel@openwrt.org>, Thomas Reifferscheid <reiffert@student.physik.uni-mainz.de>
   5 Depends: libncurses
   6 Source: http://openwrt.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/openwrt/package/iptraf/
   7 Description: Full screen ncurses traceroute/ping tool
   8  mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs
   9  in a single network diagnostic tool.
  10  .
  11  As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host
  12  mtr runs on and a user-specified destination host.  After it
  13  determines the address of each network hop between the machines,
  14  it sends a sequence ICMP ECHO requests to each one to determine the
  15  quality of the link to each machine.  As it does this, it prints
  16  running statistics about each machine.
  17