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On Sun, 22 Oct 1995, Mike Nasto wrote: > 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 > > OK! Agreed. So then, what would you use? Ping, yes it has a low-priority, but we are looking at routers "busy" routers. If they were not busy the pings would not be so bad. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email [email protected] Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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