Ruben Alvarez <> wrote on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 20:04: > All, > > I've heard that Cisco devices handle ICMP at a low priority. I found > one post describing it handled in process-switching and not > fast-switching. Does anyone have an article that explains that > process and is it configurable?
Pings *to* the router are processed in process switching (as all/most other packets destined to the router itself). Pings *through* the router are switched like all others. > The reason I ask is I see about 4% packet loss when I ping devices in > our broadband aggregation network. From the CPE to the router there > is none, from my workstation to the router there is none, but if I > ping the whole path I get a fairly consistent 4% loss. I can't find > any congestion or errors. Ping from my workstation to the CPE are a > consistent 60ms, aside from the 4% loss. don't know what could be causing this. I would try to troubleshoot in which direction the packets are lost, and troubleshoot further.. but sounds strange.. oli _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/