On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Henning wrote:
Hi Folks,
Pardon my ignorance...but is there an IP somewhere out there that is
specifically set up to be a ping target for checking connectivity?
A common problem. Unfortunately the RFCs say that ping is
not to be used (at least continuously) for connectivity
checking. They don't tell you what to use and they didn't
provide a transport layer checker as part of the RFC. It's a
bit of an oversight in my mind. So we all have to make up
our own checker at a higher layer. Routers exchange link
information, but this is no help to people on leaf nodes.
The other poster's idea is as good as anything.
I ping www.duke.edu 10 times when I bring up my ppp
connection.
Joe
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