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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
On Mon, 21 Oct 1996 [email protected] wrote: > A situation where I have to "shop around" for connectivity depending > on what site I want to talk to that day is just plain unacceptable. If you're like most people working off site, there are a few hosts that you need to keep long TCP sessions open to, and the rest of the net that gets random traffic. > It doesn't look to me as though the loss is being introduced at the > NAPS. If you look at the trace, you'll see that significant loss > starts to appear within Alternet, well after MAE-west. Traceroute is less useful a tool than you think in the face of congestive loss. Routers can and do selectively prioritize the queueing packets based on their type, and if I were a network operator I would have no hesitation about dropping traceroute or ping packets to low priority. > If I did interactive work under these conditions on a regular basis, I'd > have gone insane long ago. No, you would have changed ISPs a long time ago, instead of whining to NANOG that the entire world is providing sub-standard service. Ed - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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