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Re: Pinging routers for network status

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Mon Dec 18 20:04:16 2000

Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:01:06 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
To: "John M . Brown" <jmbrown@ihighway.net>
Cc: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>,
	Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, John M . Brown wrote:

> End users (read those that write the checks) seem to put a lot of
> stock into the ping and trace route values.

End users typically don't have the network monitoring tools available to
them that NOCs do.

FYI, FWIW, YMMV.

Cheers, SJS.

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