Hi Tacack You understanding is totally different from mines :-)
What is fail criteria based on your understanding? The fail criteria is the one which will make everything clear. With regards Kings On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Vybhav Ramachandran <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello Kings, > > I did some testing using GNS3 and wireshark. Here's what i found > > *Frequency* -> Once in how many seconds should the ASA try to reach the > destination to verify the SLA. If the frequency is configured as 10 seconds, > then once in ten seconds the ASA will try and ping the destination. > > *num-packets *-> "how many" echo-requests are sent from the ASA during > each ping attempt (once every frequency interval) . Ex : Suppose the num-of > packets is 3 and the frequency is 10 seconds. Then, at the end of 10 > seconds, the ASA will send 3 echo-requests continuously to the destination > and wait for the response from the destination. > > *timeout *-> It defines how much time the ASA will wait for the > echo-replies for each of the pings that it sends / per frequency > time-period. > > Now a couple of questions come into my mind which are similar to yours > > 1) Suppose the num-of-packets is set to 3, frequency is 10 seconds and the > timeout is set to 1000 ( 1 second ), and the ASA replies prompt echo-replies > for the first 2 ICMP echo-replies and the 3rd echo-reply comes in after 2 > seconds, what happens to the SLA? Does it show it as down? > > 2) What's the purpose of sending multiple pings at each interval period? :) > > > Cheers, > TacACK >
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