[ILUG] [Possibly OT] Network Traffic Analysis and Interface Control

[Hamilton, David (TSG C&I)]

No. It's more a case of having to use an unreliable, high-cost
transmission medium which gives a highly variable bandwidth.
When the effective bandwidth does drop below useable levels, we have
usually found tons of TCP re-transmissions, and would therefore like to
use these as a criterion for shutting down the line due to lack of
financial viability of the session.

	D. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Jakma [mailto:paul at clubi.ie] 
Sent: 22 February 2006 16:34
To: Hamilton, David (TSG C&I)
Cc: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] [Possibly OT] Network Traffic Analysis and Interface
Control

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Hamilton, David (TSG C&I) wrote:

> I am looking for a way of getting a machine to monitor traffic of a 
> specific type between specific hosts, and when more than a certain 
> threshold of TCP re-Transmissions occur in a specified period, have 
> the machine shut down a cisco router interface via SNMP for a specific

> period of time, and then re-open it afterwards.

This sounds like a really poor alternative to running a routing
protocol.

regards,
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