Re: Initial Route Server Stats for MAE-East

[Mike Nasto <mnasto () franklin nysernet ORG>]

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? 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael A. Nasto                        Customer Support Manager
NYSERNet, Inc.                          Phone: 315-453-2912 x 256
200 Elwood Davis Road                   Fax: 315-453-3052
Suite 103                               Email: mnasto () franklin nysernet org
Liverpool, NY 13088-6147                       mnasto () transit nyser net
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Carpe Diem +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++