[93118] in North American Network Operators' Group
ICMP & PathMTU (was: Re: Extreme Slowness)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Thu Oct 26 22:29:49 2006
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CE3DA2DD-7BDA-42B4-80A9-FF2814532147@digitalrage.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:29:17 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 18:01 -0400, Elijah Savage wrote:
> For FYI :) I realize that ICMP is not the best way to test and it is
> not a true indication of slowness or the presence of a problem.
Two questions for everybody...(any and all responses appreciated, even
if the reply mentions botnets or hammers ;-) )
1) What value is ICMP if everybody pretty much considers it's accuracy
suspect?
2) How does ICMP's suspect nature affect Path MTU?
-Jim P.
