[TriLUG] "Light" monitoring

[Igor Partola]

> What I need a simple way to monitor my cable modem connection for
> stutters, drops, and latency.  I am primarily concerned about
> maintaining VOIP disruptions and I want a log to show to TWCBC.

I believe the watchdog daemon is able to ping a given IP and take certain
actions based on the result as well.

As a fun aside, the Raspberry Pi has a hardware watchdog that is disabled
by default: http://pi.gadgetoid.com/post/001-who-watches-the-watcher

Igor