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! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email sales@netrail.net Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------