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Downloads:

6,037

Downloads of v 1.11:

118

Last Update:

14 Aug 2021

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • bp2008

Tags:

ping traceroute

Ping Tracer

This is not the latest version of Ping Tracer available.

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1.11 | Updated: 14 Aug 2021

Downloads:

6,037

Downloads of v 1.11:

118

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • bp2008

Ping Tracer 1.11

This is not the latest version of Ping Tracer available.

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Some Checks Have Failed or Are Not Yet Complete

Not All Tests Have Passed


Validation Testing Passed


Verification Testing Passed

Details

Scan Testing Resulted in Flagged as a Note:

At least one file within this package has greater than 0 detections, but less than 5

Details
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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Ping Tracer, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Ping Tracer, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Ping Tracer, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade pingtracer -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'1.11'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade pingtracer -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'1.11'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install pingtracer
  win_chocolatey:
    name: pingtracer
    version: '1.11'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'pingtracer' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '1.11'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller pingtracer
{
    Name     = "pingtracer"
    Version  = "1.11"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'pingtracer':
  ensure   => '1.11',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 14 Aug 2021.

Description

Features

This program helps to visually determine the origin of connection problems. The latency over time is shown on graphs, and each instance of packet loss is marked in red.

A common use for such a tool is to monitor your connection to a multiplayer game server so you know who to blame when you experience lag. For example, if you experience a terrible moment of lag and you see that every node beyond your router is showing elevated latency or packet loss, then the lag was on your end. Typically, a poorly performing node will affect your connection to every node after it.

I built this program for personal use, and decided to share it for free as an open source project. As such, it is light on features and polish.

Something you should be aware of is that when you attempt to "Graph every node leading to the destination", a trace route operation is performed in order to discover the hosts that will be monitored.

  • The trace route operation is not optimized for speed, and will take many seconds to complete in most cases.
  • The trace route operation attempts to contact each host (a.k.a. network node) only once. Any host that fails to respond during the trace route operation will not be monitored.
  • The trace route operation is ended if 5 consecutive hosts fail to respond. This usually indicates that the destination host was already passed by and did not respond to the trace ping.
  • Some hosts respond to the traceroute but do not respond to direct pings. Technically it would still be possible to monitor these hosts by repeating their part of the traceroute, but I assume this would be against the wishes of the owner of the host. If the owner wanted their router to be pingable, they would have enabled pinging, no?
  • I let you increase the ping rate as high as 10 pings per second (per host!) which can add up to dozens or even hundreds of pings per second. This is kind of, sort of, maybe a little bit excessive. I don't recommend actually running it that high. In fact 1 ping per second is probably all you need.

screenshot


tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'


$toolsDir       = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"


$packageArgs = @{
  unzipLocation  = "$toolsDir"
  packageName    = "pingtracer"
  file           = "$toolsDir/PingTracer.1.11_x32.zip"
  checksum       = '7136B78DE66263E11CFA6349ABDE6D10426F59A9E67BB01610B870390C44AAF5'
  checksumType   = 'sha256'
}


Write-Verbose "Unpacking"
Install-ChocolateyZipPackage @packageArgs

Write-Verbose "Searching for exe"
$files = get-childitem "$toolsdir" -include "*.exe" -recurse


# This will create a Shim for all exe and will add a line chocoUninstall.ps1 to remove it on uninstall
foreach ($file in $files) {
  Write-Verbose "Crating Start Menu enty for $($file.BaseName)"
  $newlink ="$($env:ProgramData)\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\$($file.BaseName).lnk"
  Install-ChocolateyShortcut -shortcutFilePath $newlink  -targetPath "$file"
  Add-Content "$toolsdir\chocoUninstall.ps1" -Value "Remove-Item `"$($newlink)`" -Force -ea ignore"
}
tools\chocolateyUninstall.ps1

$toolsDir       = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"

. $toolsdir\chocoUninstall.ps1
tools\LICENSE.txt
From: https://github.com/bp2008/pingtracer/blob/717f9a4c1dea12ba586a4761654d71b40cf23610/LICENSE

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 bp2008

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
tools\PingTracer.1.11_x32.zip
md5: 2FE3109112B11CD9DE66088720E01EE0 | sha1: FB2D29BB6680649F36173704BE451DA97E7A11AA | sha256: 7136B78DE66263E11CFA6349ABDE6D10426F59A9E67BB01610B870390C44AAF5 | sha512: 38A7AEA671F76B72E1FB08CA98A08C0E8626DFA029D0B7BAB899DD76562E0D16D56B5A2008487221CF5D691E0A54A78515C0C9AAEC4D274973683E493F45FA40
tools\VERIFICATION.txt
VERIFICATION
Verification is intended to assist the Chocolatey moderators and community
in verifying that this package's contents are trustworthy.

The binary can been downloaded using the official download link found at https://github.com/bp2008/pingtracer/releases
This package has been built using Appveyor.
You can find the package source at https://github.com/cmorty/au-packages/tree/master/pingtracer
As well as the build logs at: https://gist.github.com/cmorty/554cd2b607b7bf0a288341da3b311ca1

To verify the package you need to
1. Download the zip from the following
    URL: https://github.com/bp2008/pingtracer/releases/download/1.11/PingTracer.1.11.zip
2. You can use one of the following methods to obtain the checksum
  - Use powershell function 'Get-Filehash'
  - Use chocolatey utility 'checksum.exe'

  checksum type: sha256
  checksum32: 7136B78DE66263E11CFA6349ABDE6D10426F59A9E67BB01610B870390C44AAF5

Log in or click on link to see number of positives.

In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Ping Tracer 1.12.1 342 Tuesday, September 7, 2021 Approved
Ping Tracer 1.11 118 Saturday, August 14, 2021 Approved
Ping Tracer 1.10.1 226 Saturday, March 27, 2021 Approved
Ping Tracer 1.10 121 Sunday, March 7, 2021 Approved
Ping Tracer 1.9 83 Wednesday, March 3, 2021 Approved
Ping Tracer 1.8.0.20200802 248 Sunday, August 2, 2020 Approved
Ping Tracer 1.8 211 Friday, July 3, 2020 Approved
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