[76947] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Measure overall network availability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Fri Jan 7 06:42:39 2005
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
To: NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a050106223938591677@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 06:41:46 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 12:09 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Maybe maintain a few 1U colo boxes (cheap!) in data centers on
> selected networks around the world, from where you want to measure
> reachablity .. run nothing except nagios or some other monitoring app
> for measuring availablity of services like http, smtp, etc that you
> want to know are available or not,
I've often wondered, as I work intimately with NMS software, just how
much cross network traffic is "are you there?" related. Would it have a
positive impact on overall net performance if everyone just turned off
all internetwork status polling?
<ducking>
-Jim P.
