I think I heard somthing about adjusting outstanding icmp request on the
NV machine, an option in netmon I think.
Is this true.
If so, is there any recommended settings.
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Mikael
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy W. [SMTP:jw@UK.IBMMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 10:16 AM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: Reliability of NV Status Polling
>
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>
> All,
>
> We use both NV/6000 4.1 and NV5.0a/NT. Our customer is very anxious to
> get us to agree that NetView status polling may be unreliable, and
> that
> interfaces may appear to be down when in fact, all that is happening
> is
> that the TCP/IP protocol on the machine being polled is TOO BUSY to
> answer the ICMP request!!!
>
> Is this in any way possible on TCP/IP for NT or AIX?
>
> If the machine is TOO BUSY to answer a ping, is it not also TOO BUSY
> to
> answer request for resources (i.e. it is effectively down anyway)?
>
> Is it possible that some WAN router between networks could be TOO BUSY
> to handle an ICMP packet? Would it not just keep trying?
>
> Any help from you network techies would be very useful!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy.
>
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> Jeremy Worrell (CS), IBM UK Ltd. +44 (1926) 462464
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