3rd party network monitoring

Fri Mar 7 14:56:04 UTC 2008

My bad, you might be able to do it with PingPlotter using remote proxies 
that are linux.  I can see using the Vixie personal colo list to find 
cheap vm offerings in various locations.  Other option, a few could get 
together and share some resources to get the proxies distributed.

http://www.pingplotter.com/manual/pro/remote_trace.html

Jeroen Massar wrote:
> John A. Kilpatrick wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Tom Sands wrote:
>>
>>> When we did get a hold of someone, they mentioned they could support 
>>> simple ICMP requests.
>>
>> To them "simple" means it's just a ping check.  They won't 
>> montior/graph/care about latency.
>>
>> I was pondering creating a "smoke ping collective".  Get a bunch of 
>> guys to agree to run smokeping and monitor each other.  That's a 
>> great tool for visualizing changes in latency and works just as well 
>> with ICMP as with HTTP.
>
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>
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>
> Enjoy ;)
>
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
>