Subj : Re: Network Monitoring
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Brian Rogers
Date : Wed May 26 2021 09:50 am

Hello Wilfred;

-=> Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Brian Rogers <=-

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

That would result in many false positives to do that. Sites that do direct
crash netmail would falsely report that they do full forwarding with each
other when in fact it'd just be netmail not echomail exchanged.

For an NC such as myself, it could be used to determine a node or point's
status and after so many consecutive failures remove that destination from
the nodelist... or at least let the NC know that a node may have decided to
drop out. Like with amateur radio, too many guys come to me for IP blocks,
then they drop out and never inform me. In the interim I'm left hanging on
blocks thinking they're used when they're not so I don't reallocate the IPs
when I could. I control 10 /16 networks, and to sweep those takes days.

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