[167115] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Is there a method or tool(s) to prove network outages?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Sun Dec 1 14:45:14 2013
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: Notify Me <notify.sina@gmail.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 19:44:46 +0000
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Reply-To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Ask them for a plot of your snr (signal to noise ratio) and your rsl (recei=
ve signal level). In the RF realm, it's pretty difficult to fabricate recei=
ve power. :)
Sent from my Mobile Device.
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From: Notify Me <notify.sina@gmail.com>
Date: 12/01/2013 7:58 AM (GMT-09:00)
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Is there a method or tool(s) to prove network outages?
Hi Everyone
Please I have a very problematic radio link which goes out and back on
again every few hours.
The only way I know this is happening is from my gateway device: a Sophos
UTM that sends email anytime there's been an outage.
The ISP refuses to accept this as outage/instability proof, and I'm
wondering if there's something I can run behind the gateway UTM that can
provide output information over time.
They seem to be a primarily Windows+Cisco shop (as is common here in the
4th world). We are primarily Linux.
Is there some set of command incantations I can run who's output I can
collect and send to them (besides some sort of sustained ping)?
Thanks in advance!
Sina
