Subj : Re: Network Monitoring
To   : Brian Rogers
From : John Dovey
Date : Tue May 25 2021 09:19 pm

 Re: Re: Network Monitoring
 By: Brian Rogers to Wilfred van Velzen on Tue May 25 2021 16:46:00

BR> WvV> This data simply isn't available for fidonet. You would need to have
BR> It would be quit simple to impliment. Some sysops however may find a quick
BR> ping to their binkd port intrusive, but it really wouldn't be. A responce
BR> to the query would be enough to know if the system is up or down. The
BR> issue might be with the volume of nodes.

True. There is all kinds of software out there that will do this in a net friendly way. IcePing, EchoPing etc come to mind.

BR> Someone suggested I'm actually writing such a thing but I'm not. I do
LOL. It was suggested to me..
Good to know !.

JD

John Dovey
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