good network troubleshooting tool

[Streiner, Justin]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:

> Im looking for suggestions on a good tool to track down packetlosses.
> MTR (/usr/ports/net/mtr) is exactly what I want with one exception:
> MTR uses ICMP, I would like something TCP based.
> I have tried a lot of the utilities in ports but has so far not
> found anything that suits my needs. Does anyone have any suggestions
> on utilities or pointers where to look?

You can try something like lft (layer four traceroute).  This may do what
you're looking for.

http://www.mainnerve.com/lft/

Hope this helps.

jms