Jeff Abrahamson on 23 Apr 2004 16:01:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Switching from Cable to DSL


On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:26:03AM -0400, William H. Magill wrote:
> I'm in Evergreen CO, and normally have "perfect" service -- at least
> for periods of weeks at a time. (I run a monitor program
> locally). Then they (Verizon) "upgrade" some piece of equipment in
> the CO or do some other such thing and the line starts to flap --
> outages of a minute or two every 10-90 minutes over the course of a
> week or more ... sometimes severe flapping in a 2-4 hour period,
> sometimes seriously random (to the point that without my monitor
> program, I would not notice the flapping.)

What monitor program do you use, Bill?

I've only occasionally done single ICMP pings once a minute (all *'s
in cron) and stored results, but nothing that integrated data analysis
or anything sophisticated.  It was just to look at how ping times were
shifting.

Yeah, I guess I could have used mon...

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 Jeff

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