[776] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Initial Route Server Stats for MAE-East
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Nasto)
Sun Oct 22 16:08:44 1995
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 16:00:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike Nasto <mnasto@franklin.nysernet.ORG>
To: "Mike O'Dell" <mo@uunet.uu.net>
cc: curtis@ans.net, "William B. Norton" <wbn@merit.edu>, nanog@home.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <QQzmkl21187.199510211357@rodan.UU.NET>
On Sat, 21 Oct 1995, Mike O'Dell wrote:
> 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
OK! Agreed. So then, what would you use?
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