Re: Measure overall network availability

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 of services like http, smtp, etc that you want to know are available or not,

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> -Jim P.