21 Oct
1995
21 Oct
'95
9:57 a.m.
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