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Amity team photo:
Bebo
NUST
4/14/2020 Kiran reports: "due to coronavirus we are not going to university. But I have requested the university admin to cooperate with me and install a teamviewer so that I can remotely access the PC and the monitor and maggie2. If the university does so then I will call you on skype so that we can resolve the issue." Kiran has no time estimate as to when this may happen. Kiran's current post terminates in Sept 2020.
Kiran's post was to terminate Sep 20. She was working on monitor, maggie2, nwfpuet. Les has disabled them all.
Covid-19 see:
We are working on maggie2, monitor and nwfpuet:
- On 2/16/2020 sent emails to Kiran about monitor.seecs.edu.pk not being pingable, maggie2.seecs.edu.pk not responding to http://maggie2.seecs.edu.pk/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl?, and pinger.nwfpuet.edu.pk looking like it has a bad pinger.xml file (missing the BeaconList).
- Emails exchanged on maggie2 2/18/2020. Not there yet.
- 2/26/2020 corresponded with Kiran via zoom to clarify problems. She is working on monitor, maggie2, nwfpuet.
- 4/14/2020 Kiran reports: "due to coronavirus we are not going to university. But I have requested the university admin to cooperate with me and install a teamviewer so that I can remotely access the PC and the monitor and maggie2. If the university does so then I will call you on skype so that we can resolve the issue." Kiran has no time estimate as to when this may happen. Kiran's current post terminates in Sept 2020.
- Covid-19 see:https://www.google.com/search?q=covid-19+pakistan+cases&oq=covid-19+Pakistan&aqs=chrome.1.0i131i433i457j0l7.15256j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
- https://covid.gov.pk/
- https://covid.gov.pk/stats/pakistan
- https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/pakistan/
UAF (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad)/GHZU
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Saqib plans to get 2-3 undergraduate students in a month or so and plans to look at Android PingER. No update 4/16/2020.
/afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/pinger/prm/prm.pl -lp true -c /afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/pinger/prm/prm-last120days-slac.conf 8/31/2020 there was an exchange of emails: Saqib wrote: I" am healthy and virus-free, however, things turned quite hectic on my end due to online lectures and assignments. Now things are getting better. I have sent a message to pinger.gcwuf.edu.pk to turn the server live again. Further, I am trying to figure out a student to look at the possible impact of Covid-19 interventions on Internet responsiveness as measured by PingER."
UMAR
SLAC
- Bebo posed the question of whether PingER can identify changes in Internet responsiveness as measured by PingER as a result of the impact of the Covid-19 virus.
- The first attempts looking et PingER statistics and see if there were any noticeable changes in performance attributable to Covid-19 interventions (e.g. shutting down schools, social distancing, gathering cancellations, lockdowns), were not very successful (see PingER and COVID-19). See https://covid19-interventions.com/ for interventions in European, and some Asian countries.
- Another attempt to correlate the impacts might be to use a tool such as Google Motion Charts to look for correlations between say Covid-19 cases (cases, hospital admissions, deaths etc) and PingER metrics as a function of time, by country, continent, plus population or density of population. The idea is that as Covid-19 cases pass say 100, the country will impose interventions such as school closing, social distancing etc. which will change the usage patterns of the Internet which may have noticeable impacts on the PingER measurements.
- Unfortunately Google Motion metrics relies on Flash and is no longer supported .
- A possible alternative is Charta.ca
- I have therefore put together a Perl script (chart-covid.pl) to take daily PingER metrics for the last 120 days together with up-to-date raw data on the coronavirus from the Johns HopkinsUniversity GitHub site: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19, for various countries with their population, area, population density and cast the data in a format suitable for Charta.ca.
- There is a web page I put together on how to use Charta.ca at Using Chart.ca.
- There is an example at https://charteca.blob.core.windows.net/pubs/3Z3qcBXqCT9B3WHz
- Instead of using Covid-19 confirmed cases, it might be good to use the Unacast cell phone location data to get a measure of how people are social distancing. I have sent them two emails but no response.
- Discussion:.
- Les pointed out that many of our targets (and of course the SLAC Measurement Agent) for the US (ESnet and Internet2), Europe (Dante, and national education/research networks etc.), Australia (AARNET) and parts of Asia (TEIN) are on well-provisioned, lightly loaded networks so it is the transit networks are not expected to see big changes.
- Umar pointed out that the closing of schools, people staying at home should increase the traffic (e.g. between students and profs teaching remotely, people surfing the web watching videos etc) on CDNs (Content Deliverable Networks), and much of this traffic is on public networks. Thus one might see big changes for traffic transitting public networks.
- Since PingER is not monitoring homes and content deliverers, PingER would not expect to see big changes in responsiveness for most of our targets in the above regions.
- On the other hand, African networks are less well developed and PingER may see more of an effect for such targets.
State of MAs.
Host | State | last seen | Status |
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daffodilvarsity.edu.bd | No data since Feb 19, 2020. No response to ping. Disabled by Cottrell 10/19/202. | ||
pingeramity.in | No data since Jan 6, 2020. Cannot ping gives unknown host. Disabled by Cottrell 10/19/2020 | ||
pinger.rmutsv.ac.th | Unable to gather data since November 13, 2019. Host is pingable. Sent email to chaisit.c@rmutsv.ac.th 3/26/2020. No response by 4/13/2020. Disabled 10/19/2020 | Nov 13, 2019 | |
pinger.gcwuf.edu.pk | Unable to gather data since 3/31/2020, host is not pingable. Email sent to Saqib 4/13/2020 | 3/31/2020 | |
monitor.seecs.edu.pk | No data since 10/29/2019, host is pingable email to Wajahat 11/7/2019. Reminder to Kiran and Wajahat 2/16/2020. Host not pingable sent email to Kiran and Wajahat 3/3/2020. Email sent to Kiran and Wajahat 4/13/2020. Unknown Host. Kiran's post was to terminate Sep 20. She was working on monitor, maggie2, nwfpuet. No response. Disabled. | 10/27/2019 | |
maggie2.seecs.edu.pk | No data since 11/4/2019, host is pingable email to Wajahat 11/2/2019, 11/20/2019. Reminder to Kiran and Wajahat 2/16/2020. Host no longer pingable, sent email to Kiran and Wajahat 3/3/2020. Email sent to Kiran and Wajahat 4/13/2020. iran's post was to terminate Sep 20. She was working on monitor, maggie2, nwfpuetKNo progress 10/19/2020. It is disabled. | ||
pinger.nwfpuet.edu.pk | Something amiss since April 2019 when it dropped from monitoring over 150 targets down to 4. There is nothing in <BeaconsList>, all the hosts it attempts to monitor are in the locally manually maintained <NodeList>. Does not ping by name. Email sent 11/7/2019, and again 11/20/2019. Reminder to Kiran and Wajahat 2/16/2020. Email sent to Kiran and Wajahat 4/13/2020. Kiran's post was to terminate Sep 20. She was working on monitor, maggie2, nwfpuetDisabled 3/17/2020, we still ping it as a target, |
Next Meeting
Next meeting: There will be a Doodle poll, for 2020 at 9 pm Pacific time; a day later 9:00 am Pakistan time; 9:30 am India time; 12:00 pm Malaysian & Guangzhou time; 1:00 pm Thailand time; 6:00 am Jordan time. 5:00am Turkey time.
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