On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:03:52PM -0800, Jeff Shultz wrote:
On 10/29/2002 at 3:40 PM Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200, Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> said:
Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit and receive data using ECHO and ECHO_REPLY packets? Why they are considered harmful?
Smurf.
Okay. What will this do to my user's ping and traceroute times, if anything? I've got users who tend to panic if their latency hits 250ms between here and the moon (slight exaggeration, but only slight).
I just love it when I've got people blaming me because the 20th hop on a traceroute starts returning * * * instead of times.
that's icmp ttl expired messages.
I know that, and I try to explain it to my customers... but it doesn't answer the first part of the question - what will throttling ICMP do to ping and traceroute times? My gut reaction is that it will a. slow them
ICMP? Or only icmp echo and icmp echo-reply messages? In a well behaved router, nothing. Obviously if you have a 7500 or older GSR linecards that are incapable of doing this due to design problems from day one in pps rates and feature path, there may be a hit. I'm not saying rate-limit anything other than echo+reply.
down and/or b. discard a lot of them making the circuit look unreliable to ping. But I don't know enough about the underlying technology to be sure of that.
Once again, i'd like to see (other than a performance checking customer) generate more than 2Mb/s of icmp.echo and icmp.echo-reply packets that are legit and not part of a DoS. This is quite rare. Do your own stats and test your hardware. - jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.