On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Pelsser Cristel <cristel@iij.ad.jp> wrote:

I'd like to use my probe to monitor the status of my home Internet connection by continuously pinging my ISP's network (which is not the first or second hop in traceroute, but something like the sixth) and perhaps www.google.com. Is there a way to do this easily using the existing UI and tools?
You can do a traceroute and configure the TTL (Maximum hops) to 6.

Thanks. In the end I hardcoded the IPv6 address for the ISP gateway, since I haven't seen it change often. I suppose I'll live to regret this.

The main part of my question was "how do I set up a measurement on my own probe that runs forever" and I think the answer is "just use a user measurement". I ended up setting up three ping measurements, each one sending 4 packets each spaced by 15000ms, every minute, because that's what will fit in my credit income.

It's strange that I can't send one ping every 15 seconds, but there you are. Also, the visualization is not as nice as the built-in measurements (why?) but it seems to do what I want.