diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'rules/mtr.in')
-rw-r--r-- | rules/mtr.in | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/rules/mtr.in b/rules/mtr.in new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5ca9619cf --- /dev/null +++ b/rules/mtr.in @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +## SECTION=networking + +config MTR + tristate + prompt "mtr" + select NCURSES + help + Full screen ncurses traceroute tool + + mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and + 'ping' programs in a asingle network diagnostic tool. + + As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection + between the host mtr runs on and a user-specified + destination host. After it determines the address of each + network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence ICMP + ECHO requests to each one to determine the quality of the + link to each machine. As it does this, it prints running + statistics about each machine. |