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
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