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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Nov 3 03:07:51 2012

Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:07:29 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAEmG1=obdqdU8ege6mte326q090OU3L3zagrES715joqm1Qnhw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> 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

randy


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