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

[Randy <randy_94108 () yahoo com>]

--- 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