Connection reliability

[Ben Duncan]

Also  ... here is a good link on T1 information, for those who do not 
have any idea
what I spouted off in my prior posting ...


http://www.networkcomputing.com/811/811ws12.html

stayler wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I have a somewhat annoying ongoing problem here that I think the list
> may be able to assist me with.  My connection to the Internet is via a
> T-1.  I have 6 B chan for IP and 2 for some voice lines right now.  My
> connection seems to drop out on a fairly regular basis, at least once
> every 2 days, sometime more often for periods of a few sec to over
> 15min.  They seem to occur at random times and do not appear to be
> local in nature, ie the premises equipment, the router is a box called
> a "Vina eLink".   I will have at my disposal in the near futer a Bit
> Error rate tester, I now maintain a network of 16 DS1 microwave radios,
> it pays to have a day job.  In the mean time I'd like to have my
> firewall box provide some stats that I could use as leverage with my
> account rep.
> 
> The Box is a Slackware 8.0 with 2.2.20 and IP Chains on it.  I was
> thinking a regular, say every minute ping of 5 packets to a remote box,
> someone amenable to me doing this of course.  The resulting information
> being saved and collated to show outages with an accurate date/time
> stamp.
> 
> Ideas suggestions?
> 
> Shawn
> 
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