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Re: Measure overall network availability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon)
Fri Jan 7 11:18:59 2005

Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:23:01 -0500
From: Gordon <Gordon@Gordonian.com>
To: Joe Shen <joe_hznm@yahoo.com.sg>
Cc: NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050107042348.33593.qmail@web53609.mail.yahoo.com>
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Joe Shen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>is there any recommended method to measure overall
>network availability? 
>
>Currently we use packet loss rate as indication of
>network availability, but to my understanding this
>just means the possiblity of e2e communication degrade
>but not the network availability.
>  
>

Cisco's SAA and RTTMON mibs could provide you with some details
pertaining to Delay, Jitter, and Packet Loss on Cisco devices.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk869/tk769/technologies_white_paper09186a00801b1a1e.shtml

-Gordon

>regards
>
>Joe
>  
>



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