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<div class="">As long as we’re being pedantic, January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet, when TCP/IP first let different kinds of computers on different networks talk to each other. </div>
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<div class="">It’s 2021, hence the Internet is <i class="">less</i> than, not more than, 40 years old. Given your mathematical skills, I put no stock in your claim that we still can’t “buy an NMS that just works.” :)</div>
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<div class=""> -mel</div>
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<div class="">On Oct 20, 2021, at 8:04 AM, Mark Tinka <<a href="mailto:mark@tinka.africa" class="">mark@tinka.africa</a>> wrote:</div>
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On 10/20/21 11:55, Nat Fogarty wrote:<br class="">
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I'm interested in what you good folks do in terms of network visibility.<br class="">
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My interests are around Service Provider space - visibility for IPoE, PPPoE, TCP(User Experience).<br class="">
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I use a product called "VoIPmonitor" for all things VoIP - and it is one of my favourite tools. It is a web gui for sip/rtp/etc.<br class="">
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Is there a similar tool in the Ethernet(L2)/IP(L3) space?<br class="">
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Are operators using tcpdump/wireshark for this - or is there a voipmonitor-esque tool out there?<br class="">
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It's 2021, and more than 40 years of the Internet, we still can't walk into a shop and buy an NMS that just works :-).<br class="">
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Oddly, I was searching for a good system to manage subscriber management on our end (Broadband), and we eventually landed on Splynx.<br class="">
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So not sure if you want to see things on the wire (Layer 1 - 4), or if you are interested in pretty pictures...<br class="">
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At any rate, you may very well need more than one system to monitor your entire network.<br class="">
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