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Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter...
From: "dave o'leary" <doleary () cisco com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:06:54 -0500
At 3:25 PM -0500 12/19/96, David Miller wrote:
Would someone please tell me just why icmp echos are "cpu intensive"? Yes, I know they're in software. So what? A PC can respond to an ethernet loaded with them with a trivial percentage of it's CPU cycles.
a loaded ethernet is not the problem, a dozen OC3's worth of traffic is the challenge. Please let us not digress the NANOG list into "router design 101" again. thanks, dave - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter..., (continued)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Alan Hannan (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... David Schwartz (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Brett L. Hawn (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Alan Hannan (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Brett L. Hawn (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Jon Zeeff (Dec 21)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Michael Dillon (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Curtis Villamizar (Dec 20)
- DoS Attacks Robert Laughlin (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Curtis Villamizar (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... dave o'leary (Dec 22)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Matt Ranney (Dec 17)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... alex (Dec 18)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Tony Li (Dec 19)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Nathan Stratton (Dec 19)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Avi Freedman (Dec 19)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Nathan Stratton (Dec 19)