[6606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dave o'leary)
Sun Dec 22 19:39:21 1996
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.961219152151.18639F-100000@sparks.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:06:54 -0500
To: David Miller <david@sparks.net>
From: "dave o'leary" <doleary@cisco.com>
Cc: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net>, nanog@merit.edu
At 3:25 PM -0500 12/19/96, David Miller wrote:
>Would someone please tell me just why icmp echos are "cpu intensive"?
>
>Yes, I know they're in software. So what? A PC can respond to an
>ethernet loaded with them with a trivial percentage of it's CPU cycles.
a loaded ethernet is not the problem, a dozen OC3's worth of traffic is
the challenge.
Please let us not digress the NANOG list into "router design 101"
again.
thanks,
dave
