There was a request for the smokeping page: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ For anyone who was wondering about this, I had a case of slow response from a non-local license server and I thought it would be nice to start getting a feel for network latency (not that I can do anything about it). Smokeping allows for testing a lot of responses rather than just ping and provides some statistical graphing as well. My install was to check some license servers, but I also had a list of globally accessible ftp servers (internal) so I added them. That was a real eye opener, as my access to all of the servers is via a VPN to a site in the US and then on to the rest of the world from there. The license servers I was looking at were physically located at the same location as the gateway to the rest of the world. One would expect that the latency would climb as I went further along the network segments (hops). It appears that other than one site which must be at the end of a 1200baud modem, every other site had faster response than the one I was going through (often by an order of magnitude). This indicates some network issue at the site and not a topology design issue. Not my problem to solve, but I now have charts with a history to show there is a problem when the next network audit happens. Scott _______________________________________________ regulars mailing list regulars [ at ] ovsage [ dot ] org http://www.ovsage.org/mailman/listinfo/regulars