NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter...

Tue Dec 17 06:07:01 UTC 1996

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> From: Vadim Antonov <avg at pluris.com>

> Pings are ok, as long as you realize what exactly is being
measured.
> If you're pinging ciscos, you aren't measuring IP packet loss.

And if you are pinging across frame relay your ICMP packet loss might
be your packets above the CIR which have been discarded and also not
indicative of IP packet loss.

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