[c-nsp] RTR/SAA on smaller platforms

[Clinton Work]

I have done a lot of SAA icmpecho and jitter probes on both the Cisco 1721 
and Catalyst 3550 switches.  They work quite well and I haven't had any
issues. If you summarize the jitter statistics they can provide round trip 
latency,max jitter, and packet loss with one test. The jitter probe does 
require another Cisco device at the other end with "rtr responder" enabled.

I have used Cisco GSRs as well, but the distributed nature of the platform 
throws off the jitter measurements.


jamie baddeley wrote:
> we've been thinking about setting up some dedicated SAA probes on the
> c1700 platform.
> 
> bad idea?


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Clinton Work	clinton at scripty.com
Calgary, AB