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Re: Is there a method or tool(s) to prove network outages?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Sun Dec 1 21:16:06 2013

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 02:15:29 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20131201195031.GG14268@hezmatt.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Dec 2, 2013, at 2:50 AM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> wrote:

> I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the root question to answer before you g=
o off spending time setting up anything in particular: what *will* the ISP
> accept (or be forced to accept) as outage/instability proof?

That was my point - if the upstream won't accept ICMP pings, what's the lik=
elihood he'll accept anything else, either?

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