<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Good monring all,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I've had some sporadic issues in my home network, and I'd like to try and troubleshoot them, but need advice on <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">how - is there an existing product that would do this? Or am I better off writing something myself?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">My setup is:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">cable modem in bridge mode -> ASUS wifi+wired router, with wifi and wired machines in the house, and some powerline networking for a few DVRs that are too old for wifi<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The issues:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">1) sporadic loss of wifi connection - like my SSID is not visible for 10s of seconds, and<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">2) sporadic loss of connectivity to the Intarweb at large - nothing seems to get out/back for minutes at a time<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">What I would like to do is monitor connectivity from my (wired) desktop to the fixed points in my internal network, and some strategic outside sites (Google DNS, Comcast DNS, wikipedia, or others with good uptime/connectivity), and generate a periodic report on when and for how long connectivity was lost to each.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Does anyone have recommendations? Does systemd cover this yet? :)<br></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Pete Hardie<br>--------<br>Better Living Through Bitmaps</div>
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