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IP SLA theory

IP SLA theory

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IP SLA theory

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IPSLA, or IP Service Level Agreements, are a feature built into Cisco's iOS that provides a way to monitor network performance. This is an active method for monitoring and reporting, as it has the ability to report on our traffic in real time. Metrics that IPSLA has the ability to report on include basic connectivity, delay, jitter, packet loss and sequencing, response time, and much more. This is a very common tool for service providers that they use to monitor customer sites, whether that's internet service providers or data center providers. But it can also be helpful to us as we're troubleshooting our own topologies. The main benefit of IPSLA is that it does not require a physical probe in order to monitor network performance. It simply uses generated traffic to measure the performance of a network between devices. Using IPSLA requires an IPSLA source and optionally an IPSLA responder. The IPSLA source will generate packets and send those to a destination device somewhere else on…

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