On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote:
>>  is there a software tool to analyse network traffic and work out where the
>> packets are being lost (tcptrace?) and
>>  say why they are being lost?

mtr might be what you need -- continuously traceroutes to everything
discovered in between you & the target. Very good for spotting which
intermediate router has intermittent packet loss, which is probably
the situation. Although in those cases it's usually "just busy" rather
than broken.

-jim
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