[42297] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: slowing down every 60 seconds due to BGP scaner
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Fri Sep 14 16:42:50 2001
To: "David McGaugh" <david_mcgaugh@eli.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: rs@seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: 14 Sep 2001 16:23:30 -0400
In-Reply-To: "David McGaugh"'s message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:38:13 -0700"
Message-ID: <87u1y5ldx9.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"David McGaugh" <david_mcgaugh@eli.net> writes:
> We've brought this concern up to Cisco before and they assured us that
> everything is performing normally. You will see this when performing
> router to router pings as well however, we have been told that packet
> forwarding does not suffer. ICMP replies from the router (not through
> the router) are given a very low CPU priority.
Seconded. Ping response times or lack of ping response from routers
signifies *nothing*. Ditto for traceroutes, &c. Ping *through* the
router, not *to* the router.
---Rob
