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Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 13:50:07 -0600
From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
> Our redundancy is at the point where we have more of a problem detecting
> that links are actually down and notifying the admin!  Once we went for 6
> hours with a feed down because the What's Up box was pinging the wrong IP
> number, and no customers or administrators noticed it because the network
> didn't seem any slower or different than it normally is.

mrtg?

> Now that's redundancy for you.

Er, resilient?  They're only redundant if you're not using them.

	http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200105/dadvocate.html

;^)

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/

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