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Narelle wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'll clarify some more...
I want to drop some cheap probes around the network that look a lot
like what customers actually use...
ie measure what they experience, log it, then compile...
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I'm not sure what your customers do, but there are many linux client
side things which you can instrument fairly easily - eg. wget/various
pop mail downloaders etc. Then you can time them/graph them etc and
look for patterns. From a purely network point of view
smokeping is something some people like. <br>
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and I want to standardise on this (until I do something better) and
use it across the range of access types our customers use
you can't actually use gamers ;-P as there isn't the numbers of them
in statistically good samples across all access types
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We've got peaks of over 2400 of them on game server clusters around
Australia so they make good canaries.<br>
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MMC<br>
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On 7/7/08, Narelle <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com"><narellec@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Anyone know a good open source PC based, client side network
performance monitoring tool?
Logging, packet size variations, jitter latency, dns...
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ta again
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