[769] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Initial Route Server Stats for MAE-East
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike O'Dell)
Sat Oct 21 10:00:44 1995
To: curtis@ans.net
cc: "William B. Norton" <wbn@merit.edu>, nanog@home.merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Oct 1995 20:35:24 EDT."
<199510210035.UAA22884@brookfield.ans.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 09:57:37 -0400
From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo@uunet.uu.net>
remember that using pings to sample connectivity to a very busy
cisco router is not a very reliable probe for several reasons.
Returning pings is a low-priority task in the first place, and
they are rate-limited, so if the processor is busy processing
lots of BGP updates and several folks are fribbling with it
using ping or SNMP, it is less than clear what they will see.
-mo
