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Re: Any issue with www.cisco.com

  • From: Bruce Pinsky
  • Date: Tue Sep 06 13:35:25 2005 
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Chip Mefford wrote:
> Gerry Boudreaux wrote:
> 
>>>mtr shows the packet loss in the last hop for me:
>>>
>>>14. sjck-dmzbb-gw1.cisco.com                                             0.0%    62   66.6  75.4  64.5 293.7  37.1
>>>15. sjck-dmzdc-gw2.cisco.com                                             0.0%    62   62.5  65.4  59.2 155.4  13.1
>>>16. www.cisco.com                                                       14.8%    62   59.2  64.7  58.1  88.4   7.2
> 
> 
> I'm seeing roughly ~25 percent packet loss, it varies.
> 

If you are relying on ping and traceroute tests to measure packet loss,
then you are coming to false conclusions.

ICMP responses are throttled by many, many devices including routers, load
balancers, firewalls, IPS devices, etc, etc.

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