On Sun, 22 Oct 1995, Jeff Young wrote:
there aren't any easy answers. perhaps we should all just implement "ping" servers in pops ( a 386 running linux or bsd might suffice).
So then perhaps since multiple (last I recall) hosts already exist on MAE-East; we could use them for an experiment of sorts. One could take two hosts and setup a program akin to a loopback on each, operating on TCP ports. A standard data set could then be transmitted back and forth at certain time intervals and compared. The result could then in theory say that there was such heavy load on the MAE, that packets were dropped -- even with retransmission. In any case, it would be more substantiative than pinging Cisco's. Correlating this info (it a 5minute increment was chosen, this would be easier) we could correlate any detected lossage information with the utilization statistics presently being generated. \|/ _____ \|/ Jonathan Heiliger @~/ . . \~@ MFS Global Network Services, Inc. ________________________/_( \___/ )_\______________________________________ \__U__/ Direct: [408].975.2259 Email: loco@MFSDatanet.COM CSC: [800].637.7170 NCC: [800].637.4872