That's not quite the case. Since most of the traffic gets through. I can SNMP 
walk and all. It's only 10%-13% that does not get through apparently. Not sure 
why yet. I'll setup the tcpdump shortly.

Andrey

On Apr 18, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Manickaraja Arumugam wrote:

> Hi
> 
> You should allow icmp traffic in the firewall for its  behind devices to the 
> intermapper server.
> 
> Regards
> Manickaraja
> 
> 
> ------Original Message------
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> Subject: RE: [IM-Talk] Packet loss question
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> Well, the device seems to be responding to SNMP just fine. I can walk it 
> (from InterMapper), I can poll it and it works like expected. However, the 
> status window says that packet loss is 13% for all devices beyond the 
> firewall. I'm suspecting the firewall does something stupid, but I'm trying 
> to understand how InterMapper determines that there is packets loss, so I 
> know what to look for in the firewall.
> 
> So, in short, not exactly. I guess the actual question is "which packets need 
> to get lost for the counter to increase?"
> 
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> Andrey,
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> If you are using the default device thresholds, then for SNMP probes, 
> InterMapper is sending two SNMP requests and, if the device fails to respond 
> to the SNMP
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