Re: Does any know where the link is for

[Richard Irving <rirving () onecall net>]

John Starta wrote:
> If you locate this, please forward the link along.

  I haven't found the original, it was dated about
97-99... NLANR, perhaps  ????

 But, there are more recent write ups...

Here are two I encountered:

 <http://www.inetdaemon.com/tools/ping_is_not.html>

 This one explains why PING -may- be bad, but regular
performance, OK...

(Call it the end user explanation of ACL-CAR intervention)

 :)

And this one,( more what I was looking for..)
a detailed explanation of the caveats of clever
tracerouting providing Bogus Data.

<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/traceroute.html>

 I needed something for a rookie tech who was "whining"
about a site tracerouting with an intervening router
- appearing - slow (An exchange BGP router, go figure),
but an end to end of -38 ms-, -consistent- and with -no- loss.

  He didn't believe the explanation of the BGP rumble...
and I was growing frustrated with the need for detail,
when it just wasn't registering !

  :(

 "When the Judge is a blind man, it can be -exasperating-
trying defend your choice of the Winner of the Art fair."

  :P