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Re: Refusing Pings on Core Routers??? A new trend?

  • From: Patrick W. Gilmore
  • Date: Thu Oct 19 22:25:31 2006 
On Oct 19, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:



template response -- I hear is "Well, you can't rely on traceroute
because of ICMP prioritisation".  When you start to explain how
traceroute actually works (both ICMP-based and UDP-based (which
still relies on ICMP responses, of course!)), and that ICMP prio
should only affect the IP of which the router listens on (and not
hops beyond or at the dest), most NOCs fire back with another



If I recall well, Cisco GSRs impose low priority and/or limits for all
ICMP traffic flowing thru the box, not just packets to/from router
itself, and there's not a knob to adjust that.




You don't recall well.



Although there is a knob if you want to tweak it. But there's a knob
for just about everything - it's just not tweaked by default.



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TTFN,

patrick