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How NetPath Works
Hi! I’m Chris!
What is NetPath?
Let’s map your paths!
What just happened?
Agent deployment
Plugin deployment
Plugin configuration
Data reporting
Check out the paths
Path discovery, and why traceroute wasn’t enough
Firewall blocks
Path mixing, yikes!
Control plane performance vs data plane performance
Discovering all active paths
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How NetPath Works
Determining status AKA chasing the Network Truth
The threshold problem
LAN vs WAN and unhealthy latency
Packet loss? Or packet delivery? (loss, dns failure, port closed, routing loops, etc.)
Components vs path and transit likelihood
Probing vs polling
Testing window
Comparison requires completion, so what is completion?
Data integration
Public repository querying
Node mapping
Ingress/egress port mapping
Network hygiene vs transit impacting problem
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Q&A
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