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Re: level3_bx4-montrealak.net consistently dropping 50% of the packets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Habicht)
Thu Feb 20 11:12:47 2014
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:11:37 +0300
From: Frank Habicht <geier@geier.ne.tz>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 2/20/2014 6:08 PM, Nick Cameo wrote:
> According to mtr command we are consistently seeing
> level3_bx4-montrealak.net
> dropping 30-50% of packets. Our ISP is Bell Canada. Any ideas on how to get
> this resolved are greatly appreciated.
It's dropping packets _to_ and/or _from_ it.
Seem it's got the priorities well adjusted and does not drop packets being
_forwarded_ (see hops 6 and 7).
first $search_engine hit for me was
https://library.linode.com/linux-tools/mtr#sph_icmp-rate-limiting
Frank
