[778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Initial Route Server Stats for MAE-East
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Sun Oct 22 17:15:56 1995
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 17:23:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: Mike Nasto <mnasto@franklin.nysernet.ORG>
cc: "Mike O'Dell" <mo@uunet.uu.net>, curtis@ans.net,
"William B. Norton" <wbn@merit.edu>, nanog@home.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951022155945.4876B-100000@franklin.nysernet.org>
On Sun, 22 Oct 1995, Mike Nasto wrote:
> 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?
Ping, yes it has a low-priority, but we are looking at routers "busy"
routers. If they were not busy the pings would not be so bad.
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World!
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