On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Phil Rosenthal wrote:
--- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Jason Lewis
Isn't ping the first thing to be dropped in favor of other traffic? I remember a similar issue and Cisco saying that was the behavior. Don't quote me on that.
jas ---
Even if it is, that still means that other packets could be lost had those pings not been there.
Not neccessarily. It's my experience that ciscos will sometime drop icmp instead of replying when under load...but that's only for packets directed at its interfaces. So, I might see 5% packetloss from the router itself, but 0% packetloss for everything behind it. Andy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access