[191350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for recommendations for a dedicated ping responder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Sep 9 16:17:38 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <20160909200848.GH3870@dan.olp.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 16:17:33 -0400
To: Dan White <dwhite@olp.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Sep 9, 2016, at 4:08 PM, Dan White <dwhite@olp.net> wrote:
>
> We're being caught up in some sort of peering dispute between Level 3 and
> Google (in the Dallas area), and we've fielded several calls from larger
> customers complaining of 40-50% packet loss (to 8.8.8.8) when there appears
> to be no actual service impacting loss.
>
> We currently suggest customers use a Linux server to ping against, or
> another public host.
>
> Ideally we'd like to use a hardware based ICMP system for customer use -
> Accedian NIDs are good at this (exceptionally low jitter) accept they
> throttle at 500 pings per second.
I know that the NETNOD folks did NTP in a FPGA that can do 4x 10GE,
perhaps that card and code could be used to do 40G ICMP responder?
- Jared
