> > Ideal world yes, ping is a useful tool for latency testing, but it is > > unfortunately abused...hardly ideal to give icmp a priority for > > packets destined TO router...far more important roles for a router to > > do than prioritize an icmp flood to a local int. > > I am not saying that they should be prioritized higher than packets > passing through the router. I just want to avoid having them handled by > the routing engine; ICMP ECHO is simple enough to do in hardware. This > also prevents ICMP ECHO-based DoS-attacks on the router.
If you also include MPLS etc in the picture it's no longer so clearcut, I'm afraid. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no _______________________________________________ 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/
