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From: rpw3@amdcad.AMD.COM (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: general recommendations on tools
Message-ID: <25287@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 19 Apr 89 06:52:23 GMT
References: <3763@phri.UUCP> <29783@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA
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In article <29783@bu-cs.BU.EDU> kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England) writes:
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| 	You have leased lines and you want a BERT?  Again, not so
| useful.  I find that leased lines are either up or down.  It may be
| nice to verify that the error rate is such-and-such and beat on your
| carrier, but that is already a losing game.  They won't do anything
| until the line is really dead.  Again, a little humor there  :-)
| 	--Kent England, Boston University
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Humor understood...

Sometimes when dealing with The Phone Co\\\\\\\ (oops!) your carrier(s)
of choice you have to laugh to keep from crying. Nevertheless, if the
routers you have on the ends of those lines keep statistics on packet
error rates on the lines, and you can write a program on one of your
hosts to poll those statistics and keep a "contemporary record" [I just
*love* that IRS buzzword!] of error behavior, *sometimes* you can
convince your carrier that your line is drifting out of spec *before*
it up and dies on you. Sometimes...


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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