Re: Traceroute losses through NYC1.gblx.net?

2011-09-17 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 9/16/11 11:42 , Steve Bohrer wrote: My general question is what meaning do I give to lossy traceroutes, even when pings show no problem. Can I expect that backbone routers should never give me timeouts on a traceroute through them, so, lots of asterisks from these systems indicate a

Traceroute losses through NYC1.gblx.net?

2011-09-16 Thread Steve Bohrer
My general question is what meaning do I give to lossy traceroutes, even when pings show no problem. Can I expect that backbone routers should never give me timeouts on a traceroute through them, so, lots of asterisks from these systems indicate a packet loss problem that needs to be

Re: Traceroute losses through NYC1.gblx.net?

2011-09-16 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Steve Bohrer wrote: My general question is what meaning do I give to lossy traceroutes, even when pings show no problem. Can I expect that backbone routers should never give me timeouts on a traceroute through them, so, lots of asterisks from these systems

Re: Traceroute losses through NYC1.gblx.net?

2011-09-16 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Steve Bohrer skboh...@simons-rock.edu wrote: Can I expect that backbone routers should never give me timeouts on a traceroute through them, so, lots of asterisks from these systems indicate a packet loss problem that needs to be fixed? something inside the