On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Barry Murphy wrote:
Hey David,
The idea is to ascertain where an issue may lie. I understand the network will most likely heal its' self, however it's still nice to know where the issue lies. I'm guessing customers connect directly to the erx's, thus if the erxcrash's and goes down, customer falling off that node will be effected.
The idea is a pretty map with colors indicating packet loss. Let's just see what happens when the next big network fault happens.
It is highly unlikely anyone will give you this information (and in some cases this is 100% unlikely) as this would tend to be considered "commercially sensitive" data to many large organisations. Any information gathered through probing networks will most certainly be inaccurate and could lead (as pointed out earlier) to increased frustration in helpdesks when some clueless customer rings up to report an ERX crash because they saw it on your intarwebnet page. -- Steve.