[157699] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: qwest.net dropping packets... wife would like someone to pick
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sat Nov 3 22:05:06 2012
In-Reply-To: <m2sj8ryxji.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 22:04:47 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
