[48235] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: operational: icmp echo out of control?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Amgad Zeitoun)
Sat May 25 02:56:40 2002
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 19:59:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Amgad Zeitoun <azeitoun@eecs.umich.edu>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Path latency doesn't change much, you can determine
> this with very few probes.
> . . . .
> Much like web spidering, some simple common sense can help keep probes
> from becoming a hassle:
> . . . .
> * Consider what is the smallest unit of "distinct network topology" you
> need to map. A very reasonable number would be a /24.
We have been studying these issues as part
of the IDMaps project and have two reports
quantifying our results. If interested,
you can download our papers from:
http://idmaps.eecs.umich.edu/papers/rtt.ps.gz
http://idmaps.eecs.umich.edu/papers/ap.pdf
Cheers,
Amgad
