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Re: qwest.net dropping packets... wife would like someone to pick them up please...


From: PC <paul4004 () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 00:12:20 -0600

For some more information, this previous document and presentation make
good resources:

Document:

http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/RAS_Traceroute_N47_Sun.pdf

There's also a presentation here:

http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Interpret_traceroutes.wmv




On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Randy <randy_94108 () yahoo com> wrote:

--- On Sat, 11/3/12, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:

From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Subject: Re: qwest.net dropping packets... wife would like someone to
pick them up please...
To: "Randy Bush" <randy () psg com>
Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Saturday, November 3, 2012, 7:04 PM
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Randy
Bush <randy () psg com>
wrote:
one router along the path showing loss that does
not continue to
affect the rest of the path simply means the cpu on
that router
is a bit too busy to respond to icmp messages

trivial footnote: some folk configure some routers to
rate limit
icmp

other trivial footnote, not all traceroute is icmp.

 True, wrt to destination. However all intermediate(including penultimate)
hops reveal themselves via ICMP type 11 Code 0 (TTL exceeded in transit)
./Randy





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