22 Dec
1996
22 Dec
'96
7:33 p.m.
At 3:25 PM -0500 12/19/96, David Miller wrote:
Would someone please tell me just why icmp echos are "cpu intensive"?
Yes, I know they're in software. So what? A PC can respond to an ethernet loaded with them with a trivial percentage of it's CPU cycles.
a loaded ethernet is not the problem, a dozen OC3's worth of traffic is the challenge. Please let us not digress the NANOG list into "router design 101" again. thanks, dave