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Scripting How-To: op-pingsweep for troubleshooting MTU/MSS issues

By Erdem posted 08-14-2015 10:00

  

 

Overview

Send a series of pings to remote-host, useful for troubleshooting MTU/MSS issues. This applies to SLAX version 1.1 and higher.

 

Description

 

Automatically send a series of pings to the remote host. Subsequent pings send packets of increasing size so that transmission size issues are detected.

What it Does
 

This script sends a series of pings to a remote host, starting with a packet size of $min-size.The size of the packet is increased with each ping by specified $step increments until it reaches $max-size. The results are useful for troubleshooting issues related to maximum transmission unit (MTU) or maximum segment size (MSS).

Set Up

  1. Copy the op-pingsweep.slax script to the /var/db/scripts/op directory on the router.
  2. Enable the script by adding the file statement and script filename to the [edit system scripts op] hierarchy level in the configuration. Only superusers can enable scripts in the configuration.
    1 [edit system scripts op]
    2 user@host# set file op-pingsweep.slax
  3. Commit the configuration:
    1 [edit]
    2 user@host# commit and-quit
How to Run
 
  1. To run this script, issue the command op op-pingsweep from the CLI operational mode:
    1 user@host> op op-pingsweep remote-host <hostname>
    Note: The argument remote-host is mandatory. Optional arguments are min-size, max-size, and step. The default values for the optional arguments are:
    • min-size = 1400
    • max-size = 1600
    • step = 100
  2. The output will appear similar to this:
    01 user@cli> op pingsweep remote-host waffy min-size 1400 max-size 1600 step 100
    02  
    03 Executing command: ping waffy size 1400 count 1 do-not-fragment
    04 Ping Success!!!
    05  
    06 Executing command: ping waffy size 1500 count 1 do-not-frament
    07 Ping Success!!!
    08  
    09 Executing command: ping waffy size 1600 count 1 do-not-frament
    10 Ping Failed!!!
  3. To see a list of all arguments for the script, type “?” after the command op op-pingsweep:
    01 user@host> op op-pingsweep ?
    02  
    03 Possible completions:
    04 <[Enter]>         Execute this command
    05 <name>            Argument name
    06 detail            Display detailed output
    07 max-size          Maximum packet size
    08 min-size          Minimum packet size
    09 remote-host       Host name or ip-address to ping
    10 step              Packet size difference
Source Code
 

 

GitHub Links
 
Example Output
01 user@cli> op pingsweep remote-host waffy min-size 1400 max-size 1600 step 100
02  
03 Executing command: ping waffy size 1400 count 1 do-not-fragment
04 Ping Success!!!
05  
06 Executing command: ping waffy size 1500 count 1 do-not-frament
07 Ping Success!!!
08  
09 Executing command: ping waffy size 1600 count 1 do-not-frament
10

Ping Failed!!!

 

SLAX Script Contents

 

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/*
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 * Op script to send series of pings to remote-host, each one increasing in
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 * size, may be useful for troubleshooting MTU/MSS issues.
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 *
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 * Size of the packet starts from $min-size, increases by $step and
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 * ends at $max-size
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 *
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 * E.g
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 * user1@chennai> op pingsweep remote-host waffy min-size 1400 max-size 1600
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 *                  step 100
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 *    Executing command: ping waffy size 1400 count 1 do-not-fragment
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 *    Ping Success!!!
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 *    Executing command: ping waffy size 1500 count 1 do-not-fragment
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 *    Ping Failed!!!
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 *    Executing command: ping waffy size 1600 count 1 do-not-fragment
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 *    Ping Failed!!!
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 */
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version 1.1;
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ns junos = "http://xml.juniper.net/junos/*/junos";
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ns xnm = "http://xml.juniper.net/xnm/1.1/xnm";
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ns jcs = "http://xml.juniper.net/junos/commit-scripts/1.0";
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import "../import/junos.xsl";
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var $arguments = {
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    <argument> {
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    <name> "remote-host";
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    <description> "Host name or ip-address to ping";
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    }
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    <argument> {
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    <name> "min-size";
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    <description> "Minimum packet size";
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    }
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    <argument> {
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    <name> "max-size";
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    <description> "Maximum packet size";
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    }
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    <argument> {
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    <name> "step";
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    <description> "Packet size difference";
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    }
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}
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param $remote-host;
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param $min-size;
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param $max-size;
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param $step;
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match / {
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    call ping($remote-host, $cur-size = $min-size, $max-size, $step);
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}
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template ping ($remote-host, $cur-size, $max-size, $step) {
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    if ($cur-size <= $max-size) {
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    var $ping-rpc = {
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        <ping> {
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        <host> $remote-host;
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        <size> $cur-size;
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        <count> 1;
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        <do-not-fragment>;
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        }
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    }
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        expr jcs:output("Executing command: ping ", $remote-host, " size ",
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             $cur-size, " count 1 do-not-fragment");
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    var $ping-out = jcs:invoke($ping-rpc);
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    if ($ping-out/ping-success) {
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        expr jcs:output("Ping Success!!!");
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    } else {
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        expr jcs:output("Ping Failed!!!");
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    }
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        call ping($remote-host, $cur-size = $cur-size + $step, $max-size,
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          $step);
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    }
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}

XML Script Contents

 

 
01 <?xml version="1.0"?>
02 <script>
03   <title>op-pingsweep.slax</title>
04   <author>rsankar</author>
05   <synopsis>
06     Send a series of ping to remote-host, useful for troubleshooting MTU/MSS issues
07   </synopsis>
08   <coe>op</coe>
09   <type>diagnose</type>
10  
11   <description>
12 This script performs pings to remote-host, which may be useful for troubleshooting MTU/MSS issues.
13 Size of the packet starts from $min-size, increases by $step and ends at $max-size.
14  
15   </description>
16  
17   <example>
18     <title>Sample Output</title>
19     <description>Output of "op pingsweep" command</description>
20     <output>example-1.output</output>
21   </example>
22  
23   <xhtml:script xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
24                 src="../../../../../web/leaf.js"
25             type="text/javascript"/>
26 </script>

 


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