[c-nsp] Something I was thinking about whilst idle the other day.

[Shane Short]

Ah yes, I love those guys..
I got sick of trying to be polite and just said 'Sorry, my routers  
have more important things to do, than respond to your ICMP packets.'

-Shane

On 20/03/2008, at 11:00 AM, Tom Storey wrote:

>> It's only bad if the process using it is starving other processes  
>> from
>> doing their job correctly (icmp echo is not an important job).
>
> Try telling that to customers.
>
> Get a router that is reasonably busy during peak times, and you'll get
> your occasional "know it all wannabe network engineer" who will  
> email in
> and kindly "let you know" that a link is saturated, or there is packet
> loss, or a router has a fault because it is too busy to respond to  
> an ICMP
> echo request.
>
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