[138425] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ethernet circuit testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sherwin Ang)
Mon Mar 7 20:24:28 2011
In-Reply-To: <61CFCA0622DF4996973497EC3B407FF1@dlaptop>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:23:46 +0800
From: Sherwin Ang <sherwin.ang@gmail.com>
To: Dustin Swinford <dustinnanog@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
RFC2544 testers.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Dustin Swinford <dustinnanog@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> More often on Ethernet services, we experience a customer wanting to see
> more than an Ookla based server test from our network. =A0Our hands in th=
e
> field are limited in the number of Ethernet smart loopback devices that t=
hey
> own. =A0If we do have a tester on site, we can generate traffic from an E=
xfo
> purpose built appliance toward the loop and determine results. =A0Too oft=
en,
> we have found things such as ftp downloads to be unreliable based on use =
of
> server, windows PC doing the download, etc. =A0What other methods are you=
guys
> using for testing these services?
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