RE: Pinging routers for network status

["Jason Lewis" <jlewis () jasonlewis net>]

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.

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