[76949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Measure overall network availability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Jan 7 08:14:35 2005
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:44:07 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 06:41:46 -0500, Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
not too much, when done right .. and when compared to all the noise
out there - martian packets, p2p downloads, worm generated traffic ...
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
