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Custom iso: He can get as far as the boot screen, but is unable to get to the desktop. No progress 2/5/2014, 4/23/2014, 6/4/2014.
Johari has created a shell script to automate the installation of pinger package in Ubuntu/Fedora/Centos Linux distro. He has finished the Fedora and Centos implementations. He will give it to Kashif to test. Johari has added a page at pinger.unimas.my/pinger website on the usage of a shell script to automate the installation steps for pinger package. It is available at The finalized installation script for pinger software for CentOS/Fedora based distribution is available from the following url (past the step by step tutorial): http://pinger.unimas.my/pinger/install-tutorial.php. Kashif assisted in testing the script.
Johari has a research student who finalized a proposal in order to officially apply for his masters. He will start in February. He is currently working on threshold/anomaly detection, and will extend to correlating performance over multiple routes. He will share the proposal with Les and others April. No progress 6/4/2014.
UTM
Saqib has talked to MYREN they say the routers at hops 5 and 6 in the traceroute from UM to UNIMAS are both at UM and the long delay between them is due to congestion. I am skeptical since hops 6-12 have similar RTT and 12 is near Kuching. I suggest Saqib run mtr for a day or more from UM to UNIMAS see if there is any day night variation in RTT. If min RTT gets down to <2 ms, then the MYREN guy is right. If it is ~ 50ms and persists for several days then it really does not look like congestion (which should vary day night as the number of users changes). In that case then it really appears hop 6 is physically close to hop 12 since they have the same min RTT. Taken together with the email from UM I would be very suspicious of the MYREN statement.
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