Ah yes, I love those guys.. I got sick of trying to be polite and just said 'Sorry, my routers have more important things to do, than respond to your ICMP packets.'
-Shane On 20/03/2008, at 11:00 AM, Tom Storey wrote: >> It's only bad if the process using it is starving other processes >> from >> doing their job correctly (icmp echo is not an important job). > > Try telling that to customers. > > Get a router that is reasonably busy during peak times, and you'll get > your occasional "know it all wannabe network engineer" who will > email in > and kindly "let you know" that a link is saturated, or there is packet > loss, or a router has a fault because it is too busy to respond to > an ICMP > echo request. > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
