Re: RTT of ICMP "TTL exceeded" messages in Level3 network remains the same throughout the network

Depends on the setup. With MPLS and traffic engineering tunnels you can make a 30 hop path look like one hop easily. On 8/13/14, 9:25 AM, "Martin T" wrote: >Hi, > >if I make a traceroute to a host in San Jose in Level3 network from >DigitalOcean server in Amsterdam, then in Level3 network(ho

Re: RTT of ICMP "TTL exceeded" messages in Level3 network remains the same throughout the network

How does this technically work? What are the advantages of such setup? http://forums.juniper.net/t5/Routing/what-does-quot-icmp-tunneling-quot-mean-in-mpls-vpn/td-p/164284 http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos12.1/topics/usage-guidelines/mpls-configuring-icmp-message-tunneling.html ...and

RTT of ICMP "TTL exceeded" messages in Level3 network remains the same throughout the network

Hi, if I make a traceroute to a host in San Jose in Level3 network from DigitalOcean server in Amsterdam, then in Level3 network(hop 6 in example below) the RTT remains the same: # traceroute -q 1 -I ZYNGA-INC.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net traceroute to ZYNGA-INC.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net (4.53.208.1