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Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter...
- From: dave o'leary
- Date: Sun Dec 22 19:33:14 1996
At 3:25 PM -0500 12/19/96, David Miller wrote:
>Would someone please tell me just why icmp echos are "cpu intensive"?
>
>Yes, I know they're in software. So what? A PC can respond to an
>ethernet loaded with them with a trivial percentage of it's CPU cycles.
a loaded ethernet is not the problem, a dozen OC3's worth of traffic is
the challenge.
Please let us not digress the NANOG list into "router design 101"
again.
thanks,
dave
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