[GRLUG] Routing Weirdness

[Mark Farver]

On Jan 28, 2014 5:36 PM, "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Mike Williams wrote:

> >
> Good theory, but not really valid; the link has been solid for months, and
> it isn't going down for a few minutes and coming back up, else the folks
> using the network share would get errors.

The comment was about the gateway links to the internet.  The site to site
link stability has no relevance.  Users may not notice momentary outage of
any circuit as TCP will retry many messages.  And you can't be certain of
the stability of any of the links if you aren't monitoring them.

> The point about log files is a good one, .. I'm just not used to using
> routers that have them.

Most routers have logs.  And SNMP counters....

Mark
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