Re: barak-online.net icmp performance vs. traceroute/tcptraceroute, ssh, ipsec

[Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com>]

Lincoln Dale wrote:

> > traceroute/tcptraceroute show packet loss and MUCH higher rtt than the
> > corresponding direct pings on the reported hop entries.
> >
> > Is this some sort of massaging or plain just "faking it"? Or is such
> > things merely net-urban myth?
>
>
> the vast majority of routers on the internet respond very differently to
> traffic 'directed at them' as opposed to traffic 'routed through them'.

Thanks for your reply.

I did include icmp echo directly to each hop as a comparison.