I don't know why WISP world doesn't adopt more industry-standard solutions.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Reynolds" <j...@kyneticwifi.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 4:27:19 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ping monitoring? You are looking for a carrier / telco feature, of which there are several variants. CCM is one, "loopback testing" is another. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1ag is a good place to start You won't get the level of reliability or accuracy you are looking for with regular ICMP echo, and some gear actually responds very poorly when the management interface is ping'd every 1 sec. On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Jon Langeler <jon-ispli...@michwave.net> wrote: > Just wanting to keep an eye out for packet loss. I currently do it with a > Windows program but I'm looking for something more stable. It's mostly to > monitor backhauls and maybe APs > > Jon Langeler > Michwave Technologies, Inc. > > > On Jan 19, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> wrote: > > I think a better question is: > > What are you trying to accomplish? > > On Jan 18, 2017 8:36 PM, "Jon Langeler" <jon-ispli...@michwave.net> wrote: >> >> I can't get smokeping to send a ping say every second and only one each >> time. Any alternatives or suggestions? >> >> Jon Langeler >> Michwave Technologies, Inc. >> >
