The MPLS WG Archive

[Eric Osborne <eosborne@cisco.com>]

> > First of all, not all MIBs that are defined get used in practice.  I
> > know of no ISP that is using the ping MIB to drive pings or collect
> > information.  It is just too inefficient to do things that way.  I
> > don't think any routers implement it.  I welcome any corrections.
> 
> Cisco routers support ping MIB.
> 

...and I've talked to one customer that uses it, but I think it's safe
to say that ping MIB isn't the most popular networking tool known to
man..:)



eric


> > 
> > The tier one ISPs that I know have been and probably still are using
> > pings are either doing ad-hoc testing or driving tests from pizza
> > boxes (1U rackmounts) running *ix that do statistical collection and
> > if applicable raise alarms by other means.  In some cases one way
> > measurements are made rather than use ping at all.  Traceroute is
> > almost always strictly ad-hoc testing or very customized information
> > gathering such as the CAIDA skitter program (which doesn't use a MIB).
> > 
> > If we end up doing an LSP-ping MIB, which too may go unused, then
> > someone that thinks it will be used can write it.  IMHO it can be a
> > separate document.
> 
> I agree it needs to be a seperate doc that the LSP Ping doc.
> 
> Cheers..
> 
> -ajay
> > 
> > Curtis