[76951] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Measure overall network availability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E.Seastrom)
Fri Jan 7 09:56:57 2005
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Robert E.Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:56:29 -0500
In-Reply-To: <1105098106.3333.18.camel@blue> (Jim Popovitch's message of
"Fri, 07 Jan 2005 06:41:46 -0500")
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com> writes:
> 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?
>
> <ducking>
Depends on the number in the most significant nybble of the first byte
of the IP header.
---Rob
