Re: Measure overall network availability

[Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>]

Jim Popovitch wrote:

> I've often wondered, as I work intimately with NMS software, just how
> much cross network traffic is "are you there?" related.  Would it have a
> positive impact on overall net performance if everyone just turned off
> all internetwork status polling?
>
> <ducking>
>
>  
Since p2p traffic is >50% globally and >80% on many networks, everything 
else can be considered marginal.

Pete