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2.5 Admins 141: Sysadmin Hunt

2.5 Admins

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The Benefits of Using ICMP Pings to Monitor Network Traffic

It's pretty easy to starve a pipe to the point where pings start not going through. And if you've got a watchdog on that pipe that uses ICMP pings to monitor availability, well, you may be restarting things that you shouldn't. But in this particular case, where you've got potentially a contract with a bunch of really remote locations in some way big, like a big state, let's say, in the US, this could save you a lot of money or a lot of time.

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