On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:32:28AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > I found that when mtr'ing Israeli hosts, I get packet loss. When > mtr'ing international hosts (www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, zak.co.il > [hosted outside of Israel], I get less packet loss than when mtr'ing > Israeli hosts. Weird!
Not at all. Remember that the packets have to go through gateways. If your ISP has a direct connection to another ISP, or is part of the same network, for example ActCom and BBL, or 013 and Netvision, then things will go very smoothly. If they are not, you are dependent upon their interconnection. At one time all packets between ISPs went via the IIX, which tends to become overloaded in the afternoon. I don't know if that has changed, and if it has for all packets, or just ones that the ISPs want to have high priority. International sites are different. Your ISP connects to another ISP, which connects to another ISP and so on. For example, I can get ping times of less than 200ms to some sites in the U.S. and over a second to others. > I am connected via ADSL and 012.net.il. Hopefully BEZEQ passes all tunneled data equally, it's up to your ISP to forward the data as it sees fit. Israel has no regulations about port and protocol blocking or traffic shaping (QOS routing). All ISPs do traffic shaping and 012 is notorious for it. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
