[outages] Level3 Routing...

[Charles Sprickman]

On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:23 AM, staticsafe wrote:

> On 2/28/2014 20:49, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> I'd suggest setting up a cron job that logs the mtr data on two systems
>> (system A, going from A->B, and system B, going from B->A), so that you
>> can review it if/when it happens again.
>> 
>> I have a small shell script I wrote, which uses a dorky config file of
>> sorts, that can do this for you if you want me to provide it.  I use it
>> on my home FreeBSD system, and my FreeBSD VPS system, checking
>> connectivity between them (and to some other places as well).
>> 
> 
> Something like this would be much appreciated. I was thinking of writing
> a similar script to mail mtr output on an hourly basis.

Slightly OT, but a nice tool to have running that provides a history of packet loss to various destinations is smokeping: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/

It won't show you the path, but the historic data is useful.

Charles

> 
> Thanks,
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