[afnog] monitoring my ISP

[Herbert Maosa]

Sunday Adekunle Folayan wrote:
> Please note that some ISPs in Africa do
> traffic shaping deliberately to differentiate service levels, especially
> for customers who do not want to pay much. 
Traffic Policing, you mean  ?

> Dropped packets is a not
> necessarily a reflection of the quality of a link, but may be the policy
> of the ISP. Does your SLA talk about this?
>   
This is so true. But I would like to think that in any case packets are 
not going to be dropped if the traffic is in contract, unless there are 
link issues. So I guess the issue here is to monitor the ISP for 
dropping conforming traffic, if you can prove that your dropped packets 
did not violate/exceed the traffic contract.

Herbert.