-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chip Mefford wrote: > Gerry Boudreaux wrote: > >>>mtr shows the packet loss in the last hop for me: >>> >>>14. sjck-dmzbb-gw1.cisco.com >>>0.0% 62 66.6 75.4 64.5 293.7 37.1 >>>15. sjck-dmzdc-gw2.cisco.com >>>0.0% 62 62.5 65.4 59.2 155.4 13.1 >>>16. www.cisco.com >>>14.8% 62 59.2 64.7 58.1 88.4 7.2 > > > I'm seeing roughly ~25 percent packet loss, it varies. >
If you are relying on ping and traceroute tests to measure packet loss, then you are coming to false conclusions. ICMP responses are throttled by many, many devices including routers, load balancers, firewalls, IPS devices, etc, etc. - -- ========= bep -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDHdMFE1XcgMgrtyYRAsjzAKDniJ5MAj+PWxH6vgYaImbJc/9A9wCfdNCx aBMSXJIsAm4NaGvJTVUpIVg= =rKlr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
