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Published on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 16:06

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As anyone who's used Cisco based products will know, the usual way of displaying ping results really isn't that nice, or useful.  Results per line are very cumbersome when trying to send multiple packets per second.

The Cisco method is to represent each packet with ether a ! if the packet was successful, or a . if it was not.  This will give you a sequence that looks something like !!!!!.!!!!!!.!!!!..!!!!!!!!!! The only tool that I've ever found to replicate this is Joe's Ping Tool, however this is only available with a GUI on Windows. 

I hope to replicate the Cisco method using Python so that the tool can be used on any OS.