On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Paul Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul.wallace@mtgi.com.au" target="_blank">paul.wallace@mtgi.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Noggers -<br>
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Does anyone have a table of both common & acceptable packet loss stats when reporting via Cisco switch - switch pings?<br>
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Therefore, that table might include the following:<br>
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1. DSL2+<br>
2. symmetric DSL<br>
3. EoC<br>
4. Ethernet over Fibre (delivered in various ways)<br>
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??<br></blockquote><div><br>There aren't going to be any substancial differences in the bit error rate of the various mediums described (well - perhaps DSL may be worse depending on what the parameters are for how aggressive you want it to be maximizing performance vs reliability).<br>
<br>However if what you're asking whether pinging a switch and trying to read the tea leaves of what its reported loss characteristics are for what is essentially you pinging a rate-limited-control-plane (which is entirely unrelated to forwarding other packets/frames in the data-plane), the short answer is that its meaningless and won't tell you anything.<br>
<br>If you wish to test a link you need to find a device a hop away from it (or end-to-end) to do your tests to/from.<br><br><br>cheers,<br><br>lincoln.<br></div></div><br>