Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
FAQ: Mention plotnetcfg tool.
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
The plotnetcfg is an open source tool to visualy represent
relationship between network interfaces on a single host.

It helps to understand the path of a packet on a host.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
  • Loading branch information
fleitner authored and blp committed Sep 4, 2015
1 parent c42d0da commit 8e3cdf3
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 0 deletions.
3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions FAQ.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -1623,6 +1623,9 @@ A: To debug network behavior problems, trace the path of a packet,
that's correct, then trace the path of the response packet back to
the origin.

The open source tool called "plotnetcfg" can help to understand the
relationship between the networking devices on a single host.

Usually a simple ICMP echo request and reply ("ping") packet is
good enough. Start by initiating an ongoing "ping" from the origin
host to a remote host. If you are tracking down a connectivity
Expand Down

0 comments on commit 8e3cdf3

Please sign in to comment.