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


From: Joe Shen <joe_hznm () yahoo com sg>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 15:16:41 +0800 (CST)


I agree with Dale. The problem should be with e2e TCP
performance. 

Maybe there is misconfigured firewall which block SYN
or ACK packet. Or, packet larger than 128B is dropped.

As you can find in your data, ping and traceroute show
different response speed. 

Maybe you could try layer4 traceroute, and try packet
size bigger than 1000Byte. It will show you where the
problem may exist. 

Joe



ICMP or traceroute usually use small packet. 

--- Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com> wrote:




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.






      
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