MTR for MSL?

[bluewhite4]

I have a customer who we are using their MBG server as SIP proxy for some sip trunks.

They've been having some ISP issues and to try and diagnose it, I've been asked to install MTR onto the linux server. I thought MSL was based off of CentOS, but all the commands I find, don't work to install MTR.

Anyone tried this before or could offer some assistance?

[dilkie]

I'm running msl 10.3, 64 bit based on centos6 and

rpm -Uvh ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/centos/6.6/os/x86_64/Packages/mtr-0.75-5.el6.x86_64.rpm

installed it for me.

you'll have to find a 32 bit centos5 version, I don't think anyone's running msl 10.3 yet.

[bluewhite4]

Excellent!

I was able to find and use ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/centos/6.6/os/i386/Packages/mtr-0.75-5.el6.i686.rpm

[ralph]

I was unfamiliar with MTR so I looked it up.
What a cool tool.
For those that don't know what it does, it's like traceroute but is constantly updated so you can get a real time picture whats going on with routes.

Ralph

[bluewhite4]

The part we're using it for is to measure the packet loss on each segment of the traceroute so as to identify where/why there maybe issues with the SIP trunks the customer has.

In this case we've been able to determine that the customers ISP itself is fine, but the interconnect that bridges between the customer and the trunk provider shows 15-20% packet loss. The trunk provider says that anything <= 4% would be acceptable. 5-7% noticeable but workable. And anything above that, well good luck to you.

[dilkie]

sounds like a very useful tool. I'd never heard of it until you asked and installed and ran it.

[bluewhite4]

We were also told of a similar Windows tool called PingPlotter, but I have yet to install it and see how well it works.