split-ping is a network diagnostic utility designed to identify the direction in which packet loss or latency occurs between two hosts. This information can be valuable when troubleshooting network links where a conventional round-trip ping measurement does not reveal the source of a problem.
The application uses cooperating endpoints to exchange measurements. Rather than reporting only the total round-trip delay, it attempts to distinguish latency and loss associated with traffic travelling in each direction.
split-ping is particularly useful for investigating asymmetric network congestion and other difficult connectivity problems. It also exposes measurement information through a metrics interface, allowing results to be collected and examined using external monitoring systems.
The executable is named sping. This project is separate from the Rust-based sping utility developed by LambdaBytes.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Measure packet loss separately for incoming and outgoing traffic.
- Investigate directional latency between participating hosts.
- UDP communication for exchanging measurement information.
- Configure peer addresses for bi-directional testing.
- Report directional statistics through command-line diagnostics.
- Prometheus-compatible metrics for network monitoring.
- Customisable metrics endpoint and listening address.
- Optional pulse-per-second timing support.
- Timing calibration and diagnostic output controls.
- Useful for examining asymmetric network problems.
Website: github.com/benjojo/sping
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Developer: Ben Cartwright-Cox
License: MIT License
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Related Software
| Alternatives to ping | |
|---|---|
| pingnoo | Offers a graphical representation for traceroute and ping output (GUI) |
| hping3 | Supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols with traceroute mode |
| gping | Ping but with a graph |
| GNOME Nettool | Performs ping, netstat, traceroute, port scans, lookup, and whois (GUI) |
| mtr | Combines 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network tool |
| pingtop | Ping multiple servers and show the result in a top like terminal UI |
| pingu | Command implementation in Go but with colorful output and pingu ascii art |
| 2ping | Bi-directional ping tool using 3-way pings (akin to TCP SYN, SYN/ACK, ACK) |
| BWPing | Measures bandwidth and response times between two hosts using ICMP |
| cnping | Minimal graphical IPv4 Ping / HTTP tool |
| fping | Send ICMP echo probes to network hosts |
| SmokePing | Measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss |
| tcping | ICMP ping but for TCP |
| alive | Periodic ping |
| ping3 | Python3 version of ICMP ping |
| echoping | Testing tool for network protocols |
| xping | Continuously probe multiple hosts using icmp-echo |
| omping | Test IPv4/IPv6 multicast connectivity on a LAN |
| Trippy | Network diagnostic tool combining the functionality of ping & traceroute |
| Echo | Simple GUI GTK4 utility to ping websites |
| pingstat | Multi-server ping logging |
| myping | Ping multiple hosts at the same time |
| mtr085 | Fork of mtr adding functionality such as Unicode histograms |
| mtr-gtk | GUI frontend |
| Ping Monitor | Displays real-time ping times (GUI) |
| split ping | See the direction of loss or latency |
| ring | ping rewritten in Rust |
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