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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Since it is non-ping traffic that matters, the low priority ping has to wait. What's the big deal here? Of course latency changes under load. Realms of ...
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On things like Superhubs and the CMTS that feed them the ping doesn't have any priority, low or otherwise. Everything is treated equally.
CMTS sending pings to end users treats it with the same priority as other traffic. The big routers only prioritise traffic that has them as the destination unless told otherwise.
Control plane versus forwarding plane. Traffic for router takes control plane, traffic passing through router forwarding plane.