[collectd] New ping plugin

[Brian Wilson]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Hans-Cees Speel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Stupid question perhaps, but why do you not use traceroute? That way
> you can monitor the isp hookup you have and see if things happen
> there.
>
> Hans-Cees

My personal answer would be (1) I want to monitor my own systems
with collectd, normally I don't care what path my packets take out on 
the Internet (2) traceroute relies on sending many
packets and waiting for timeouts. This makes it slow.
I would not want it running every 10 seconds.

Looking forward to the next rev with the new library...

Brian