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Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Salo)
Mon Dec 16 18:35:04 1996

From: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 15:54:38 -0600 (CST)
To: dvv@sprint.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

> Subject: Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter...
> To: doleary@cisco.com (dave o'leary)
> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:00:09 -0500 (EST)
> Cc: mleber@he.net, forrestc@iMach.com, nathan@netrail.net, joe@Navigist.Com,
>         nanog@merit.edu
> From: dvv@sprint.net (Dima Volodin)
> 
> More of that - at least one site uses one of our hosts as a target of
> pings for measuring "Internet health".
> We consider this to be an abuse of our resources

How many ping per second do you see?

How many pings per second can your host handle?  Your network?

> and, most probably, we will disable any external
> traffic we find inappropriate for this or other hosts.

So, do I understand you correctly as saying that you have no interest
in helping your customers understand the state of your service?

-tjs

"Those darn customers, things would work just fine, if they didn't keep
using the network..."

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