--- On Sat, 11/3/12, Christopher Morrow <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Christopher Morrow <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: qwest.net dropping packets... wife would like someone to pick > them up please... > To: "Randy Bush" <[email protected]> > Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, November 3, 2012, 7:04 PM > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Randy > Bush <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> one router along the path showing loss that does > not continue to > >> affect the rest of the path simply means the cpu on > that router > >> is a bit too busy to respond to icmp messages > > > > trivial footnote: some folk configure some routers to > rate limit > > icmp > > other trivial footnote, not all traceroute is icmp. > True, wrt to destination. However all intermediate(including penultimate) hops reveal themselves via ICMP type 11 Code 0 (TTL exceeded in transit) ./Randy
