I'm actually halfway through trying to setup a smokeping appliance. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN -----Original Message----- From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 09:38:39 To: Dobbins, Roland<rdobbins@arbor.net>; nanog@nanog.org list<nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Is there a method or tool(s) to prove network outages? On 12/1/13, 9:23 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
On Dec 2, 2013, at 12:19 AM, joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
Given a measurement target on the customer side and smokeping instance on your side you can actively measure the availability/latency/loss rates between them.
I think he's actually the end-customer, and he's saying that his upstream transit ISP won't accept non-RF-specific diags . . .
and if you don't control any of the air interfaces you don't get that.
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