[ale] ISP monitoring Software

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Jun 4 10:06:10 EDT 2011


Michael Potter <michael at potter.name> writes:

> Ale Crew,
>
> I am having intermittent problems with my comcast connection.  I would
> like to monitor it throughout day so I can proactively report problems
> rather than wait until I notice there is a problem.
>
> What do you recommend that will not require extensive coding?
>
> If nothing better I was thinking of just monitoring ping times in a loop.

Set up mrtg?

Or did you want something that would actually page/email you if the link
went down?

-derek

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