[177446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: gamer "lag" dashboard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael O Holstein)
Tue Jan 20 02:15:32 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Michael O Holstein <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu>
To: Charles N Wyble <charles@thefnf.org>, Josh Luthman
<josh@imaginenetworksllc.com>, George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:15:19 +0000
In-Reply-To: <a1ee3eb4-072c-45b2-a526-cb040250e403@email.android.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>Once you get tired of spending expensive labor time on this project, you c=
an throw some =0A=
>grad students, xboxes and scapy in a room and have them automate the proce=
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Actually, this is exactly what we do now .. we host LAN parties (usually ri=
ght after Christmas when new games come out) and have everyone plug their t=
oys into monitoring switches and get their frag on while the engineers in t=
he back of the room watch the packets and tweak stuff in realtime.=0A=
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This not only fixes the problem (sometimes) but it garners an incredible am=
ount of good will because ... when was the last time YOUR helpdesk invited =
you down to game at their office so they could help you reduce your lag?=0A=
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If you are in a position to do so, consider it. You already have a bunch of=
HDTVs and projectors in the conference room .. order some Subway/Pizza and=
make an afternoon of it. It's also a non-creepy way to do "network analysi=
s" .. when they can walk back and see what you're doing and why. Of course =
we can do it the other way too but we've found it works way better to fiddl=
e with it in realtime versus examine a pcap, tweak, update ticket, wait, re=
peat ...=0A=
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I do appreciate all the responses on/off list and those of you that reached=
out to help in some way I will contact privately in return. =0A=
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Thanks NANOG, and goodnight.=0A=
The red button at the right will unlock the door.=0A=
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-Michael Holstein=0A=
-Network & Data Security=0A=
-Cleveland State University=
