[PLUG] Network question

Stafford A. Rau srau at rauhaus.org
Fri Nov 12 18:18:39 UTC 2004


* Sean Whitney <sean at fork.com> [041112 09:20]:
> I need to test latency and packet loss on specific router interfaces
> (about 10,000 interfaces).  My plan is to select a random device on the
> interface and ping it 10 times, and storing the best, worst, average and
> packet loss in a database table.  The issue is that this will be done
> from a server on a WAN, not the local router/bridge.  

You should take a look these Cisco IOS features - SAA and RTTMON. I
haven't had a chance to do much with them yet, but they are specifically
there for testing jitter, latency, and packet loss for VOIP networks.

--Stafford




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