-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 in-line: Jim Popovitch wrote: | 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? - ----------------- depends on the polling period. regards, /vicky | | <ducking> | | -Jim P. | | | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB3pt6pbZvCIJx1bcRAhZFAKDony2dCnDUUcH9T7wntDfDNMA2kQCdGSmU gO++o+vIxzUAEaEUmFT5T3M= =KBqR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----