Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
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

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-07 Thread Petri Helenius
Jim Popovitch wrote: 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 Since p2p traffic is

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 06:41:46 -0500, Jim Popovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-07 Thread Vicky Rode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 in-line: Jim Popovitch wrote: | 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

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-07 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Jim Popovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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?

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-07 Thread Nils Ketelsen
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:23:48PM +0800, Joe Shen wrote: Hi, is there any recommended method to measure overall network availability? The problem is, that most people have no definition when they consider their network available. And without that definition it seems impossible

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-07 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:43:40AM -0500, Nils Ketelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 28 lines which said: is there any recommended method to measure overall network availability? The problem is, that most people have no definition when they consider their network available

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-07 Thread Gordon
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

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-07 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Joe Shen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, is there any recommended method to measure overall network availability? For those who might want to use it for whatever...(buck a week): http://www.dslreports.com/schedule

Measure overall network availability

2005-01-06 Thread Joe Shen
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. regards Joe

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-06 Thread Allan Liska
Hello Joe, Thursday, January 6, 2005, 11:23:48 PM, you wrote: JS is there any recommended method to measure overall JS network availability? I prefer the inverse help-desk calls method (a low number of help-desk calls means greater availability -- or that your new VOIP system is being

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:23:48 +0800 (CST), Joe Shen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any recommended method to measure overall network availability? Customer complaints that they cant reach you Network availablity from where? Maybe a script that polls visiblity of your AS from various