and responding to an ICMP is not a high priority for the router. Dave
Peter van Oene wrote: > > Things like serialization delay, propogation delay, ingress & egress > queuing affect links. Also, when dealing with ICMP, keep in mind that > the far end router needs to process and respond to the query, which > might take a lot longer than it would for the router to forward a > packet. Hence, your ping latency may not equal the transit latency for > normal packets. > > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 05:18, NIGEC Spar Engineers wrote: > > please could anyone tell me what are the factors that affect a WAN link > > ping return time. does the latency has to do with the link quality or the > > amount of traffic over the link or what? please a need replies -- David Madland CCIE# 2016 Sr. Network Engineer Qwest Communications 612-664-3367 "You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." --Winston Churchill Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=57356&t=57344 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
