Monitoring of Internet connection

[Tom Buskey]

On 6/6/07, Chip Marshall <chip at 2bithacker.net> wrote:
>
> 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.



There might be some way to combine SmokePing with RRDTool or its
predecessor, MRTG.  If you're tracking stats, graphing always helps spot
long term issues.
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