Diagnostic Tools

Thu Jun 6 17:58:52 UTC 2002

JP> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 13:42:41 -0400
JP> From: Pawlukiewicz Jane

JP> Why do you think I joined this group? very smart man.

In all seriousness, one has the basics like traceroute, ping,
route servers, looking glasses, et cetera.  However, those tools
only give a view from a certain point or along a path... they
provide a limited cross-section of a complex N-dimensional beast.

Bill was right:  Sean Donelan's posts are very handy.  And I was
only halfway being a smart-aleck... if one deduces that there
just _has_ to be something anomalous, posting to NANOG is an
amusingly low-tech "distributed layer-9" diagnostic.

Note that I'm assuming you refer to internetwork diagnostics.  If
you seek intranetwork diagnostics, one has SNMP and other tools.

--
Eddy

Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division
Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence and [inter]national
Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita

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