[HamWAN PSDR] Questions from poking around Cacti view of network?

[Tom Hayward]

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Kenny Richards <richark at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was going through the graphs/data available via Cacti server and had few
> questions.
>
> 1) What are the Rainier and Tacoma PTP links for on Baldi? Both are showing
> no traffic recently, are they for future growth?

Yes, future growth. Tacoma was supposed to link to my house as a
tunnel to one of our edge routers, but the path didn't work out. It's
available to serve that purpose from another location.

Rainier/Cascade is also unused at the moment. It has line-of-sight to
Baw Faw, if someone can make that happen.

> 2) There are three PTP links at Paine I was curious about. I'm guessing the
> 'Monroe' link is really Bart's client node.  But is the Shoreline and
> 'Bruce' PTP links purpose?  The Shoreline link is showing lots of traffic,
> is that the uplink from the Westin?

Monroe is a link from Paine to Bart's house, which then tunnels to the
edge routers.

Shoreline is a link from Paine to Nigel's house, which then tunnels to
the edge routers. All of the SNMP also happens over this link, so
that's likely the traffic you see.

Bruce is pointed toward Salt Spring Island, BC. Hopefully BCWARN will
be linking to that soon, making us an internationally-peered network!

> 3) There seems to be a big hole in the data in the last 24 hours, any idea
> what happen?  Seems to impact all the data sources, so probably something on
> the server side?

Bart broke Cacti.

Tom