[TriLUG] OT: Amiable ping target

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Henning wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>  Pardon my ignorance...but is there an IP somewhere out there that is 
> specifically set up to be a ping target for checking connectivity?

A common problem. Unfortunately the RFCs say that ping is 
not to be used (at least continuously) for connectivity 
checking. They don't tell you what to use and they didn't 
provide a transport layer checker as part of the RFC. It's a 
bit of an oversight in my mind. So we all have to make up 
our own checker at a higher layer. Routers exchange link 
information, but this is no help to people on leaf nodes. 
The other poster's idea is as good as anything.

I ping www.duke.edu 10 times when I bring up my ppp
connection.

Joe

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