wanted: 'beacon' hosts ?

Tue Oct 2 15:21:14 UTC 2001

Peter Galbavy wrote:

> I don't really know what to ask for or who, so redirection is welcome.
>
> I am setting up some monitoring from within our AS to a handful of sites
> scattered around the UK and the rest of the world. Now, I get annoyed when
> someone reads the same file off my web server evey five minutes, so I am not
> going to do it to anyone else without permission.
>
> Can anyone help (reciprocally would be fine) by providing permission to use
> ICMP Echo and HTTP GET requests against something on their network (that is
> well connected and reliable) so that I can build SLA-targetted averages for
> performance and packet loss ?
>
> I *DO NOT* want to get involved in buying this data from anyone please. I am
> very happy to provide this service in return, or even just for the sake of
> it without anything back. What I evisage is the 5-miutely 'GET'ing of a
> 20k-ish text file from a web server and a group of 5 ICMP Echos at about the
> same intervals...
>
> PS I know this is NANOG, but I am even more interested in hearing from UK
> and European networks.
>
> PPS If people are willing to offer this as a 'public' service, I will
> happily summarise back to the list and/or build a web site with details.
>
> Peter

Dear Peter;

There is software and a program to do this.

1.) Multicast enable your network.

2.) Install AccessGrid / NLANR beacons :
http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/beacon/

3.) Monitor away :
http://beaconserver.accessgrid.org:9999/

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