[84122] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: level3.net in Chicago - high packet loss?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Tue Sep 6 10:40:53 2005
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:39:12 -0400
From: Adam Rothschild <asr+nanog@latency.net>
To: Network Fortius <netfortius@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <38D1AE7F-52FA-4BCF-A32F-CF40FA958DC6@gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 2005-09-06-10:25:28, Network Fortius <netfortius@gmail.com> wrote:
> And how exactly would you interpret the number returned by net_loss
> (int), in a column called "LOSS", in reference to reachability of a
> "hop" between two end points [...]
I'd interpret it to mean you're hitting a control plane policer or
somesuch, with no actual bearing on end-to-end performance, judging
from the diagnostic output you've graciously provided us with.
I find myself giving this lecture several times a week to random
"gamer" customers upset that intermediary routers don't reply to their
pings at full line rate; I'd expect slightly better critical thinking
skills from the posters on this list, but I've been wrong before. :)
-a
