[76948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Measure overall network availability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Jan 7 06:51:19 2005
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:50:51 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1105098106.3333.18.camel@blue>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Jim Popovitch wrote:
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>I've often wondered, as I work intimately with NMS software, just how
>much cross network traffic is "are you there?" related. Would it have a
>positive impact on overall net performance if everyone just turned off
>all internetwork status polling?
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Since p2p traffic is >50% globally and >80% on many networks, everything
else can be considered marginal.
Pete
