[183856] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP's with jitter/packet loss and very far away
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk)
Fri Sep 18 12:35:56 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:35:26 +0000
From: A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk
To: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <55FC3A3C.6080200@bogus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Hi,
> my own experience is the misinterpretation of the above properties in
> traceroute is pathological to the point of making it useless in the
> hands of novices...
correct. you should be looking at the output of other data transit systems
such as iperf, bwctl etc - thats why such tools as PerfSONAR exist...allowing
you to find the real problems in your IP path
alan
