Cottrell, Les wrote:
This seems a pretty silly question, but when reporing the "packet" size for say ping RTT's do we report the ICMP payload (typically 56 by default) or the ICMP packet size with header (typically 64Bytes), or both or what?
the comment at the end of section 2.6 in the IPPM RFC http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2681.html says: Comment: "ping" would qualify as a round-trip measure under this definition, with a Type-P of ICMP echo request/reply with 60-byte packets. However, the uncertainties associated with a typical ping program must be analyzed as in the next section, including the type of reflecting point (a router may not handle an ICMP request in the fast path) and effects of load on the reflecting point.} not sure that helps.. -Dan