Subj : Re: Network Monitoring
To   : Brian Rogers
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Wed May 26 2021 11:05 am

Hi Brian,

On 2021-05-25 16:46:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> This data simply isn't available for fidonet. You would need to have
 WvV>> the cooperation of a large number of sysops, to be able to analyse
 WvV>> the incoming pkt files on their system in an uniform way, and send
 WvV>> the data to a central place where it could be analysed and visualized
 WvV>> on a website... Good luck with that! ;-)

 BR> It would be quit simple to impliment. Some sysops however may find a
 BR> quick ping to their binkd port intrusive, but it really wouldn't be. A
 BR> responce to the query would be enough to know if the system is up or
 BR> down.

That would be the only thing you know. You still don't know who connects where, 
and display that graphically, as suggested by the websites that were linked to 
in previous messages in this thread...

Bye, Wilfred.

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