Re: level3.net in Chicago - high packet loss?!?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

In message <38D1AE7F-52FA-4BCF-A32F-CF40FA958DC6 () gmail com>, Network Fortius wr
ites:
> And how exactly would you interpret the number returned by net_loss  
> (int), in a column called "LOSS", in reference to reachability of a  
> "hop" between two end points:
The hop not sending out the ICMP message for those packets, either 
because its CPU is overloaded or because of a configuration option to 
rate-limit them.

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb