Stats from NIST site.

[Bob Fink LBNL]

I've added Rob Glenn's ping page stats from NIST to the 6bone stat page
pointers.

I like the stats, especially the color coding for easy checking of what's
losing what.


Bob

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At 10:21 AM -0700 9/30/96, 6bone@snad.ncsl.nist.gov wrote:
>We had a major outage this weekend so I don't know if this made it...
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>Autogenerated and color-coded ping statistics from NIST can be found at:
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>http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/~ipng/NIST-6bone-status.html
>
>The script downloads the RIPE registries and attempts to ping every
>pingable site listed in each file.  This include the v4 Tunnel address.
>
>Data is gathered using ping on a BSD/OS PC running the NRL Alpha-3 IPv6
>code. The pinging system is two hops from the tunnel end-point. This
>implies that v6 RTTs are relative to the return trip times for NIST.
>Thus, computed RTT is given as SITE RTT - NIST RTT.
>
>v4 paths are different than the v6 tunnel paths. v4 Tunnel RTTs are
>listed but have little, if any, relation to v6 RTT.
>
>Each site is pinged 10 times using a packet size of 500 bytes.
>Statistics are gathered every hour.
>
>NOTE: I tried 1000 bytes but that failed too often.
>
>Rob G.
>rob.glenn@nist.gov
>
>PS - If anyone wants a copy of the script, let me know.  FYI: To run it
>     you need PERL 5 or better installed.