[42347] 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 23:00:18 2001
To: tme@21rst-century.com
Cc: tech@multicasttech.com, David McGaugh <david_mcgaugh@eli.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: rs@seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: 14 Sep 2001 17:25:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: Marshall Eubanks's message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:15:19 -0400"
Message-ID: <877kv1jwhn.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com> writes:
> "Robert E. Seastrom" wrote:
>
> > "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.
>
> We do streaming, and this causes a freeze up both in and out bound.
> In bound there seem to be losses. Outbound all is buffered and nothing is
> lost.
pinging the router causes a freeze-up? or the router is freezing up
on bgp updates every n seconds? platform/release ?
---rob
