[6583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Fri Dec 20 20:49:34 1996
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 17:38:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199612202200.WAA26065@diamond.xara.net>
On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Alex.Bligh wrote:
> > As to what cisco will do, you should probably ask cisco.
>
> I did. They said "the problem doesn't exist". I am circulating the problem
> (before, like SYN flods, it becomes a serious operational problem) to those
> with larger annual Cisco spend than me.
> Just wait until someone decides
> you should measure your ISPs performance by running
> ping -s 1000 mae-east.sprintlink.net
> (8kb/s). Now get 16 people doing it at once, and ...
Wouldn't it be more effective to run
ping -s 1000 sty.cisco.com ? ;-)
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
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