Neale Banks wrote:
>
> Ob FW: Whilst obviously anything that's not simply routed (e.g. proxied
> protocols) would be a completely different kettle of fish, to what extent
> could one then reasonably generalise the results obtained from ping tests
> (i.e. ICMP packets) to other protocols?
Your question is already answered, but: one should also note that doing any
kind of RTT tests (e.g. pinging) against routers is generally a Bad Idea.
Example:
- My default gateway: RTT ~1 ms
- Hop outside my default gateway: RTT often 20-30 ms <-- NOTE!
- Next hop after that: RTT ~5 ms
- ... 10 hops away: RTT 15 ms
How can this happen, you ask? Easy: forwarding and local processing
is done in different processors in many routers. The forwarding
processors can be just fine even though the "host" CPU can be totally
overloaded by things like aggressive SNMP polling, large dynamic
routing calculations (OSPF et al) and whatnot.
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Received on Sep 14 2003
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