And what are some of those tools? Are you referring to OpenView? jas -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Steven J. Sobol Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 8:01 PM To: John M . Brown Cc: Bill Woodcock; Sean Donelan; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Pinging routers for network status On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, John M . Brown wrote:
End users (read those that write the checks) seem to put a lot of stock into the ping and trace route values.
End users typically don't have the network monitoring tools available to them that NOCs do. FYI, FWIW, YMMV. Cheers, SJS. -- Steve Sobol, BOFH, President 888.480.4NET 866.DSL.EXPRESS 216.619.2NET North Shore Technologies Corporation http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net JustTheNet/JustTheNet EXPRESS DSL (ISP Services) http://JustThe.net mailto:sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net Proud resident of Cleveland, OH