Europe-to-US congestion and packet loss on he.net network, and their NOC@ won't even respond

[danny at danysek.cz (Daniel Suchy)]

On 1.12.2013 11:49, Randy Bush wrote:
>>> Using a 1/10th of a second interval is rather anti-social.
>>> I know we rate-limit ICMP traffic down, and such a
>>> short interval would be detected as attack traffic,
>>> and treated as such.
>> For what it is worth, I used to think the same, until I saw several 
>> providers themselves suggest that 1000 packets should be sent, with 
>> the 0.1 s interval.  So, this is considered normal and appropriate 
>> nowadays.
> 
> matthew is correct
> 
> go back to your old way of thinking.  while some providers may tolerate
> fast pings, few if any grown-ups do.  and even thouse who think they do
> have routing engines which consider all pings as low priority rubbish to
> be dropped when there is any real work to do.
>