Can anyone help (reciprocally would be fine) by providing permission to use
ICMP Echo and HTTP GET requests against something on their network (that is
well connected and reliable) so that I can build SLA-targetted averages for
performance and packet loss ?
I'm sure we could do something similar, if we could get access to a
similar set of targets in exchange.
I *DO NOT* want to get involved in buying this data from anyone please. I am
very happy to provide this service in return, or even just for the sake of
it without anything back. What I evisage is the 5-miutely 'GET'ing of a
20k-ish text file from a web server and a group of 5 ICMP Echos at about the
same intervals...
It would probably be nice to have some sort of moderated machine-readable
list of targets, with geographical locations, and a simple bit of code to
pick a "random" set of hosts to sample, such that you can build up a
profile of network performance to geographic areas of the internet
(transfer rate, hop count, RTT, packet loss).
I'm fairly sure there's commercial services which offer this, but it
wouldn't be too difficult to build a freeware solution.
PPS If people are willing to offer this as a 'public' service, I will
happily summarise back to the list and/or build a web site with details.
Sure, if this turns into something we can all gain something from, we'll
be interested, and will probably put up a box to support it.
Simon