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I my case, I had an unexplained outage that's got IBM scratching their heads (their answer is to wait for it to happen again and get a Main Storage Dump). Our network people have a commercial solution that does normal ping tests, but my system answered pings (it just didn't do anything else). So I'm trying to put a together a tester than can check availability.



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From: DrFranken [mailto:midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 2:34 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: iACS have cwbping?

In addition some so called 'intelligent' firewall modules which decide that traffic on this or that port doesn't conform to traffic patterns the module knows and thus shuts you down.

Currently the cisco 'fire at will' (firepower) module is on my 'most hated' listed. So far it has been confirmed to terminate PTF downloads (claiming they are oversized PDFs LOL!) as well as POWERHA traffic. I have only one customer who purchased that module who is still using it.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 3/20/2018 3:25 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
True, to a point. Depends on how likely your shop is to start locking
down connections by port. Firewall stuff. We don't do that internally.

Then again there are those who like to have multiple exits out of the
system. This is why some people still used pagers with modems instead
of network connectivity.

I think you're correct in trying your end-to-end test. But if you
"just know" that it should work but it doesn't then having that local
test in your bag of tools is something to see if the network guy
tightened things up too much.


Rob Berendt



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