hi, On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:40:51AM -0500, Benjamin Lovell wrote: > I have a dubious opinion of the usefulness as you are really only > proving the forwarding of the ONE IP forwarding entry that leads > back to your connected IP, but that's the idea anyway.
Well, it proves that the path is working end-to-end (which helps a lot
in todays "everything is ethernet, but no useful error signalling"
environments) and that there is at least a compatible IP configuration
on the remote interface (same network or unnumbered with a proper route
back).
Of course this is not a complete self-test of the remote machine, but
that would be somewhat expensive to do every 10ms :-)
gert
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