Re: [44net] Network Monitor Of Gateways ?

Dear John First of all im very pleased to talk with the BPQ Node developer we had lot of your nodes long ago when the Packet was operating About the gateways , Im aware of that problem that not all gateways accept pings from Non -AMPR adress If thats the problem they will be pinged to their non ampr address As for which IP to ping as much as I see every gateway have 44 IP leg (is supposed to serve as the default route setting for the TCP hosts who operate on the local 44 net) This address is the one i would like to ping ... As for Ping Traffic , ok if 5 minutes consider too short i may do it on hourly base (say every one hour) The idea is to get tool that will alert the gateway users (i dont sit on my router 24x7 ) that "something " happen and that they will be aware of it (by Email or SMS) and also to show a worldwide map of network status (as all commercial services do) (the fact that we are "amateurs" doesn't necessarily mean we are not professionals (or that we should behave as non professionals) 73's Ronen - 4Z4ZQ http://www.ronen.org ________________________________________ From: 44Net <44net-bounces+ronenp=hotmail.com(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu> on behalf of John Wiseman <john.wiseman(a)cantab.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 12:19 AM To: 'AMPRNet working group' Subject: Re: [44net] Network Monitor Of Gateways ? (Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ Two points to consider. A gateway doesn't have an AMPR IP address. It supports a range of addresses, and only those in the DNS will be reachable from non-AMPR addresses, Which will you ping? Some gateway software will not accept any packets from non-AMPR addresses to its AMPR address range. On your original question, I currently have 530 gateways in my list. I'd consider every 5 minutes a bit excessive, even if spread over the 5 minute interval. Others may disagree! 73, John G8BPQ -----Original Message-----