[Planetlab-users] destinations per second

[Scott Karlin]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:24:37AM +0200, Kendy Kutzner wrote:
> On 2004-06-29T11:51:20-0400, Larry Peterson wrote:
> > I have been hoping that someone else with more experience running
> > lots of pings would respond, but maybe you are the first to ping
> > so many non-PlanetLab nodes.
> 
> To be more precise: My pings are not ICMP echo requests but
> application layer UDP messages to running clients using a small
> subset of the edonkey protocol.

We've received a complaint from a site that they are receiving
a large number of *incoming* ICMP packets.  Could your UDP
packets be causing return incoming packets?

Note that we've seen trouble when UDP packets do not have
a real (non-zero and correct) checksum.  I'm not sure if
this is related.

Scott