Monitoring of Internet connection

[Chip Marshall]

On June 06, 2007, Ben Scott sent me the following:
>   I'm looking to monitor the reliability of our Internet connection at
> $DAYJOB, from the inside out.  I'm familiar (in concept at least) with
> monitoring a bunch of hosts and services with a tool like Nagios, but
> here I'm only looking to monitor one link, and closely.

You may want to check out SmokePing http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/

I don't know if it does a lot of what you mentioned, but I've found it
helpful for tracking latency over time. In particular I use it at work
to serve as an advanced warning of when our DSL modem has decided to
freak out and needs to be rebooted.

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