[HECnet] Cisco tunnels: update my IP (again)

[Tim Sneddon]

On 1/07/2016 11:09 PM, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
>
>> On Jul 1, 2016, at 11:02 AM, Tim Sneddon <tim at sneddon.id.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/07/2016 10:40 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>>
>>> ... Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max =
>>> 228/231/232 ms
>>>
>>> Oops...
>>
>> Excellent. Took bloody ages to come up! Guess I'll just have to be
>> more patient :-)
>
> What protocol does that tunnel use?  Multinet over IP?  If so, that's
> the expected behavior given the design errors of that protocol.  For
> all others, the connection should come up as soon as packets start to
> flow back and forth reliably.

It is DECnet over GRE between Cisco routers.  It typically does come up 
straight away.  However, I have observed on the very odd occasion that 
it takes a long time to come up.  No idea why that is, it has never been 
a critical issue so I've never bothered to look further.

Regards, Tim.