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From: Ramin Alidousti <ramin@UU.NET>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:30:11 +0000
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Will advanced linux routing help me
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:07:36PM +0530, Sushil Suresh wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>     At the moment we are using trace and ping to check the availability of a
> particular site, and the status of a particular ISP
> 
> The problem faced in making use of these commands in a script is that, they
> may fail in case of congestion and may be misunderstood as failure of a
> particular ISP.

Your script should not rely on only one missed ping. You should add
some intelligence to the script.

BTW, what do you do with trace?

> 
> Also how and why do you flush the route cache?

Arthur covered this just fine ;-)

Ramin

> 
> with regards,
> Sushil Suresh

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