
Hi Everyone
Please I have a very problematic radio link which goes out and back on again every few hours. The only way I know this is happening is from my gateway device: a Sophos UTM that sends email anytime there's been an outage.
The ISP refuses to accept this as outage/instability proof, and I'm wondering if there's something I can run behind the gateway UTM that can provide output information over time. They seem to be a primarily Windows+Cisco shop (as is common here in the 4th world). We are primarily Linux. Is there some set of command incantations I can run who's output I can collect and send to them (besides some sort of sustained ping)?
I'm a big fan of smokeping personally. (http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/) it will install on practically any linux device, and i've even installed it on ~$50 consumer NAS or router type devices (e.g. a pgoplug nas) if it has enough ram (128MB is dicey but works). shows you loss + latency. you set it up to ping e.g. the near and far end of the radio link, and then maybe a few sentinel sites. it can do ICMP and also TCP.