PSINet/Cogent Latency

Tue Jul 23 04:58:32 UTC 2002

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras at e-gerbil.net>
Subject: Re: PSINet/Cogent Latency
> Personally I would like to see the data collection done on the router
> itself where it is simple to collect data very frequently, then pushed
> out. This is particularly important when you are doing things like billing
> 95th percentile, where a loss of connectivity between the polling machine
> and the device is a loss of billing information.

Redbacks can actually do this with what they call Bulkstats. Collects data
on specified interfaces and ftp uploads the data file every so specified
often. Pretty slick.

Course, this isn't very helpful with Redback's extensive core router lineup,
but still.

--Doug