On 18 December 2013 10:50, Gavin Henry <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 16 December 2013 11:02, James Bensley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It performs a traceroute to a destination every 5 minutes and stores
>> the results. The idea is to monitor for route changes in networks
>> other than your own where you typically can't. This is hard to do
>> accurately, so even though the initial alpha release of the code is
>> 90% finished, I need to work on making it more accurate. It will
>> support multiple kinds of traceroute (ICMP, UDP and TCP). You can be
>> alerted when the route chages to a remote host and receive an email
>> with the different hops in the path. If there is a router failure in a
>> peer network close to our peering router with them, would can catch
>> it, if we have Smokeping set up to a similar point in there network
>> and start seeing loss, we could assume congestion and shut down the
>> peering session, as an example.
>
> Open source?


Of course ;)


James.

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