A Ping Story

[foxfirefey]

As relayed by themalkolm:

The best ping story I've ever heard was told to me at a USENIX conference, where a network administrator with an intermittent Ethernet had linked the ping program to his vocoder program, in essence writing:

ping goodhost | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | vocoder

He wired the vocoder's output into his office stereo and turned up the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting "Ping, ping, ping..." once a second, and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet connectors until the sound stopped. And that's how he found the intermittent failure.

Comments

[jadelennox]

That's the most beautiful story I've ever heard.

[azurelunatic]

It is a beautiful tale.

[kerravonsen]

That is so cool.

[pauamma]

I think the original account is http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.next/msg/cd5c242f0d5accbf

[vlion]

Did you know OSX has a command line vocoder as well?