Pinging a Device Every Second
valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Sat Dec 15 22:26:00 UTC 2018
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:20:01 -0700, Raymond Burkholder said:
> Another aspect is congestion. Large uploads or downloads can cause
> packet loss (including dropping the pings with which you are testing).
> Therefore management packets such as these could be marked and
> processed, on your side at least, with a higher priority.
How much depends on whether the CPE gear has software recent enough
to avoid massive bufferbloat.
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