A question about cisco Ping

From: achau@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 08:00:31 GMT-3

   
Hi all,

I have set up a network management software to monitor a cisco router over
a wide area network. I could ping from the router to the NMS and got 99%
successful rate. But I could only receive no more than 95% successful rate
if I pinged from the NMS bak to the router. The ping utility on the NMS is
a bit different from the one on cisco router. Unlike cisco router, the NMS
sent ICMP echo request on a periodic basis (e.g. every 1 second).

Can anyone tell me which ping method is better and more reliable? How come
I got more packet drops using the one with NMS?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Andrew

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