On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote:
> Ryan said: "it's possible for a server to respond quickly to pings but > slowly to actual file transfers" > > I'm interested in what prompted that. > Routers may be (sometimes configurable, sometimes not) configured to fast-path (or, alternately, slow-path) ICMP. Some OSes also do this (it's disconcerting to watch a Solaris box stopped with a kernel panic still respond to ping...). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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