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Re: barak-online.net icmp performance vs. traceroute/tcptraceroute, ssh, ipsec

  • From: Joe Maimon
  • Date: Sun May 06 20:29:15 2007



Lincoln Dale wrote:

traceroute/tcptraceroute show packet loss and MUCH higher rtt than the
corresponding direct pings on the reported hop entries.

Is this some sort of massaging or plain just "faking it"? Or is such
things merely net-urban myth?



the vast majority of routers on the internet respond very differently to
traffic 'directed at them' as opposed to traffic 'routed through them'.

Thanks for your reply.

I did include icmp echo directly to each hop as a comparison.