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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] DSL Packet Loss

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:17:09PM +0100, Damian Gerow wrote:
> On Wed 08/10/29 08:42, "rgb" rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] net wrote:
> > Interesting numbers.  How are you collecting this data?  I've never tried
> > or even known that I could collect information from my DSL modem.  I don't
> > know if it makes any difference, but I've got ethernet over ATM rather than
> > PPPoE. It is the same modem, but configured slightly differently.  I've never seen
> > a configuration or statistics interface for any of my DSL modems.
> 
> It doesn't so much matter what the underlying technology is.  What's more
important is whether or not your modem supports the gathering of statistics.

It most likely does.  I just had no information about it and didn't occur to me
to look for hacks.

> Most modern modems run an SNMP stack, which makes things significantly
easier.  However, even if it has a telnet/web interface that presents these
statistics, expect+cron would make a great starting point for scraping this
information from console/web output.

Yup.

> > I'm currently on Taksavvy, but have previously been on CIA, IGS,
> > iStop, BellNexxia, all on the same type of service.  The Teksavvy line is on a
> > dry loop.
> 
> It's technically all the same DSL service, provided by BellNexxia.  You're
just changing the routing of your IP packets to go through a different ISP.

True.  I was just referring to the original grandfathered Bell Sympatico RADSL
1.1/2.2Mbps without PPPoE since any traceroute reported transitting BellNexia
routers.

>   - Damian

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