Re: Measure overall network availability

Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com> writes:

I've often wondered, as I work intimately with NMS software, just how much cross network traffic is "are you there?" related. Would it have a positive impact on overall net performance if everyone just turned off all internetwork status polling?

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Depends on the number in the most significant nybble of the first byte of the IP header. ---Rob