Re: Europe-to-US congestion and packet loss on he.net network, and their NOC@ won't even respond

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Using a 1/10th of a second interval is rather anti-social. I know we rate-limit ICMP traffic down, and such a short interval would be detected as attack traffic, and treated as such. For what it is worth, I used to think the same, until I saw several providers themselves suggest that 1000 packets should be sent, with the 0.1 s interval. So, this is considered normal and appropriate nowadays.

matthew is correct go back to your old way of thinking. while some providers may tolerate fast pings, few if any grown-ups do. and even thouse who think they do have routing engines which consider all pings as low priority rubbish to be dropped when there is any real work to do. randy