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From: BILLW@MATHOM.CISCO.COM (William "Chops" Westfield)
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Subject: Re: IP performance evaluation & spray
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Date: 11 Mar 91 17:34:53 GMT
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    What are reasonable drop rates?  In "System Performance Tuning," Mike
    Loukides suggests that the RPC drop rate should be under 5%.  Is this
    also reasonable for ICMP?  I am observing drop rates considerably over
    5% (e.g., over 20%).

Well, I am aware of certain high performance networking devices that
consider ICMP, and especially responding to pings, a low priority task.

Can't you spray the box with the sort of packets you would like it to
handle during its eventual normal operation?  RPC, UDP discard and TCP
discard all seem like better ideas...

BillW
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