February 5, 2020

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Vaping - A healthy alternative to SmokePing

Vaping - A healthy alternative to SmokePing

I will talk about a tool we made and open sourced to replace smokeping. How well it scales, how it allows for distributed probes, and how after testing , we discov …
Talk Title Vaping - A healthy alternative to SmokePing
Speakers Matt Griswold, United IX, 20C
Conference NANOG73
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Location Denver, CO
Date Jun 25 2018 - Jun 27 2018
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Slides Talk Slides
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I will talk about a tool we made and open sourced to replace smokeping. How well it scales, how it allows for distributed probes, and how after testing , we discovered ssh is faster than SNMP. We just finished realtime MTR graphing, and I would like to demo that and show how easy it is to make plugins. On the web side, the foundation is a legit daemon for web service, which will solve a lot of people’s problems, so I’d like to talk about that a bit as well.

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