That's because there are more than one equal-cost next hops. You see three
round-trip times because the packets with the same TTL were send out three
times. If you look at your hop 3, you can see that it responded three
times.
HTH,
Rog
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Edward Watson
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 10:32 AM
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> Subject: trace route question
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>
> Correct me if I'm wrong. In the below trace route, the three entries in
> the first hop are the three attempts to route from hop 1 to hop2, correct?
> It is not the case that the router cannot determine how to get to
> www.ibm.com. I have a client that thinks the router is sending a single
> packet from s20.r8.mtcrcl to s1.r1.mrbakr to s0.r8.mtcrcl before
> sending it
> to the next hop. Comments? Explanation?
>
> 1 s20.r8.mtcrcl.infoave.net (216.X.X.77) 4 msec
> s1.r1.mtbakr.infoave.net (216.X.X.81) 4 msec
> s0.r8.mtcrcl.infoave.net (216.X.X.69) 4 msec
> 2 sl-gw10-sea-5-1-0-TS5.sprintlink.net (144.X.X.141) 32 msec
> border3-serial3-3-0.Denver.cw.net (204.70.30.53) 24 msec
> sl-gw10-sea-5-1-0-TS5.sprintlink.net (144.X.X.141) 28 msec
> 3 sl-bb10-sea-3-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.6.109) 28 msec 28 msec 28 msec
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