Re: Pinging routers for network status

> Customers are constantly pinging our edge router, ns, or mail server. > Recently we had a flood of "your network is down" calls because customers > where pinging a well known site we host. > I am seeing the "net" becoming more asymetric, and those ICMP > ECHO / ECHO-REPLY packets aren't taking nearly the same path > as they used to. You mean you're policy-routing ICMP and traceroute to a central reliable host? :-) -Bill