Smokeping and Policy Routing

I happen to have two home Internet connections, Comcast and AT&T. I’ve found this can be quite handy when everyone in the family is streaming or gaming or if one of them is experiencing problems of one type or another. I use pfSense as my main router and firewall. It does a pretty good job of being able to load share across each connection so that they are both used at the same time and then do automatic failover when it notices a problem with one or the other.
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Handy Docker Things

When working with docker, especially with building images there’s a few handy things to note. This is not so much of a tutorial but more of a place to keep up with some handy notes and tips

Basic Smokeping Setup in a Container

If you’re not familiar, smokeping is a tool that helps visualize loss and latency to a given destination. It will ping a list of hosts about 20 times every 5 minutes and then, on a web page, show a graph that displays the average latency and will also indicate any packet loss. The really handy thing is the history that it keeps. By default you get 4 graphs; a 3 hour, 30 hour, 10 day, and 360 day view.
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